A SONG of the setting sun! The sky in the west is red, And the day is all but done: While yonder up overhead, All too soon, There rises, so cold, the cynic moon. A song of a winter day! The wind of the north doth blow, From a sky that's chill and gray, On fields where no crops now grow Fields long shorn Of bearded barley and golden corn. A song of an old, old man! His hairs are white and his gaze, Long bleared in his visage wan, With its weight of yesterdays, Joylessly He stands and mumbles and looks at me. A song of a faded flower! 'Twas plucked in the tender bud, And fair and fresh for an hour, In a lady's hair it stood. Now, ah, now, Faded it lies in the dust and low. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FAREWELL TO LOVE; SONNET by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'I WOULD GIVE TWENTY POUND' by PATRICK CAREY OVER THE WINTRY THRESHOLD by BLISS CARMAN SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 38 by BLISS CARMAN SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 12. TO LORD STANHOPE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE SONNETS ON EMINENT CHARACTERS: 4. LA FAYETTE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE TO A YOUNG LADY, WITH A POEM ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |