IN the wild soft summer darkness How many and many a night we two together Sat in the park and watched the Hudson Wearing her lights like golden spangles Glinting on black satin. The rail along the curving pathway Was low in a happy place to let us cross, And down the hill a tree that dripped with bloom Sheltered us While your kisses and the flowers, Falling, falling, Tangled my hair. . . . The frail white stars moved slowly over the sky. And now, far off In the fragrant darkness The tree is tremulous again with bloom For June comes back. To-night what girl When she goes home, Dreamily before her mirror shakes from her hair This year's blossoms, clinging in its coils? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY ORCHA'D IN LINDEN LEA by WILLIAM BARNES REMEMBRANCE by EMILY JANE BRONTE A LITTLE DUTCH GARDEN by HARRIET WHITNEY DURBIN A TEMPLE TO FRIENDSHIP by THOMAS MOORE ENGLAND AND AMERICA IN 1782 by ALFRED TENNYSON THE MOTHERLAND by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |