They came as always at this time of year; A thread-like twitter, finer than the talk Of year-round sparrows, told me they were here. They swept about upon a golden gale, They stoned the lawn in gusts of gorgeous hail, And formed bright drifts beside the garden walk. They sped more active bombs of bolder bloom Where dandelion hosts had cast sharp doom. They rose on wings of sunshine to the crest Of the persimmon -- and the budding haw; Made yellow outcry I both heard and saw -- In famed magnificence these pilgrims dressed. -- And so, a few hours in the springs and falls They flash about my yard like gilded balls, Their coming proving earth's unbroken law. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DRUMS AND BRASS by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING TO A MOUNTAIN DAISY by ROBERT BURNS STANZAS WRITTEN ON THE ROAD BETWEEN FLORENCE AND PISA by GEORGE GORDON BYRON ODE TO ETHIOPIA by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A FAREWELL TO TOBACCO by CHARLES LAMB TO HIS HEART, BIDDING IT HAVE NO FEAR by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS |