THE bars are thick with drops that show As they gather themselves from the fog Like silver buttons ranged in a row, And as evenly spaced as if measured, although They fall at the feeblest jog. They load the leafless hedge hard by, And the blades of last year's grass, While the fallow ploughland turned up night In raw rolls, clammy and clogging lie - Too clogging for feet to pass. How dry it was on a far-back day When straws hung the hedge and around, When amid the sheaves in amorous play In curtained bonets and light array Bloomed a bevy now underground! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY DEATH AS A GIRL I KNEW by JAMES GALVIN A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 50 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN A LONDON PLANE-TREE by AMY LEVY MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA by HENRY CLAY WORK TO THE FONT-GEORGES by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE |