The owl takes a meal from a rodent hare, Then flaunts a hoo hoo through the frosty air; The scattered stars glint from the canopied sky And the pale moon glistens as the clouds drift by. The greenwood snaps in the homestead fire; The smoke curls down from the chimney's spire; An old dog roused from a slumbering croon, Sits on a hillside and barks at the moon. The clock struck ten on the mantel slope, The doctor bows and says, "No hope." Then a shadow falls on the snow white earth, And a light goes out in the cabin's berth, For an angel came from the far unknown, Now the willows weep on a mound alone. Strange to the young, these lines may seem From a winter's night ... an old man's dream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE UNCLE ANANIAS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON SONNET WRITTEN IN THE FALL OF 1914: 1 by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY PSALM 48 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE TRIUMPH OF CIVILISATION by EDWARD CARPENTER BUTTERFLY (2) by HILDA CONKLING FRANCESCA DA RIMINI by GABRIELE D'ANNUNZIO THE SAINT AT ST. JAMES CHAPPEL; A NEW SONG by THOMAS D'URFEY |