Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MIDSUMMER EAST AND WEST, by VIRNA WOODS


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MIDSUMMER EAST AND WEST, by                    
First Line: The meadows are green and sweet with clover
Last Line: And the world is wrapped in dream.
Subject(s): Nature


I

THE meadows are green and sweet with clover,
The sun shines hot and the clouds drift over
The deep skies' measureless blue.
A cooling breath and the rain drops patter
On the dusty road, and the light winds scatter
The hurrying leaves, and strew
The glistening grass with dead rose petals;
A gurgle and rush and the water settles
In many a sunbright pool.
Anon is a flash and a note of thunder,
And the forest king lies rent asunder,
And the woods are dim and cool.

II

The hills are brown and the fields are yellow;
The barley blowing, the ripe fruit mellow;
The sun beats warm on the road.
Now days grow long and the skies are cloudless,
And nights are bright with the fair moon shroudless;
Dry rocks where the river flowed,
The throstle hides and sings in the hedges,
The round-eyed toad peeps up from the sedges
That droop by the shallow streams.
The leaves are stirred by the Southwind's sallies,
The mountains sleep and the misty valleys,
And the world is wrapped in dream.





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