Dim wind pillared the hills: stiller than mist it seemed; Somewhere water challenged silence, somewhere water failed; Spiders brooded thick in silver and the willows dreamed . . . Then the wind crumpled richly; night paled. Black-eyed starlight dimmed; a voice blushed timidly; Sombre crimson crouched in shadow, rifts of hazel fire: Dawn a drowsy eagle, and the brief audacity Of thrushes fluting through the dew -- one choir! O the lift, the liquid blindness of their throats! O the high white music and the blue plumes of the wind! Up! the crested moment points a sword! the flashing notes Of sunrise-trumpets! Up! dawn is javelined! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE EXPOSED NEST by ROBERT FROST HILL-SIDE TREE by MAXWELL BODENHEIM ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) QUA CURSUM VENTUS by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH THE BALLAD OF THE OYSTERMAN by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES THE WHITE BIRDS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |