NOW comes the graybeard of the north: The forests bare their rugged breasts To every wind that wanders forth, And, in their arms, the lonely nests That housed the birdlings months ago Are egged with flakes of drifted snow. No more the robin pipes his lay To greet the flushed advance of morn; He sings in valleys far away; His heart is with the south to-day; He cannot shrill among the corn: For all the hay and corn are down And garnered; and the withered leaf, Against the branches bare and brown, Rattles; and all the days are brief. An icy hand is on the land; The cloudy sky is sad and gray; But through the misty sorrow streams, Outspreading wide, a golden ray. And on the brook that cuts the plain A diamond wonder is aglow, Fairer than that which, long ago, De Rohan staked a name to gain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY by JOHN DRYDEN THE MASTER-PLAYER by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THEOLOGY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE SHADES OF NIGHT by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN PSALM 23 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE ABER STATIONS: STATIO SECUNDA by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN |