My friend the Sun -- like all my friends Inconstant, lovely, far away -- Is out, and bright, and condescends To glory in our holiday. A furious march with him I'll go And race him in the Western train, And wake the hills I used to know And swim the Devon sea again. I have done foolishly to tread The footway of the false moonbeams, To light my lamp and call the dead And read their long black printed dreams. I have done foolishly to dwell With Fear upon her desert isle, To take my shadowgraph to Hell, And then to hope the shades would smile. And since the light must fail me soon (But faster, faster, Western train ! ) Proud meadows of the afternoon, I have remembered you again. And I'll go seek through moor and dale A flower that wastrel winds caress; The bud is red and the leaves pale, The name of it Forgetfulness. Then like the old and happy hills With frozen veins and fires outrun, I'll wait the day when darkness kills My brother and good friend, the Sun. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE TURNSTILE by WILLIAM BARNES SONGS FOR MY MOTHER: 3. HER WORDS by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH THE GRAVE OF A POETESS by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS AFTER MUSIC by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY AIRY NOTHINGS. FR. THE TEMPEST by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LET NO CHARITABLE HOPE by ELINOR WYLIE |