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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN CITY PENT, by WILLIAM WATSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: O, sweet at this sweet hour to wander free
Last Line: Dancing and prancing in mad caprioles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
First Line: O, sweet at this sweet hour to wander free
Last Line: Dancing and prancing in mad caprioles.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
O, SWEET at this sweet hour to wander free,
Or follow some invisible-beckoning hand,
Among the moody mountains, where they stand
Awed with the thought of their own majesty!
Sweet, at the folding-up of day, to be
Where, on the tattered fringes of the land,
The uncourted flowers of the penurious sand
Are pale against the pale lips of the sea.
Sweetest to dream, on easeful earth reclined,
Far in some forest's ancient idleness,
Under the shadow of its bossy boles;
Beyond the world's pursuit and Care's access;
And hear the wild feet of the elfin wind
Dancing and prancing in mad caprioles.
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