MIRACULOUS morning! Frost and sun! But you, delightful friend, sleep on. 'Tis time for beauty to bestir. Open your soft and drowsy eyes To greet the Dawn in northern skies, A northern star to welcome her. Last night, remember, a wind blew; In the rough sky a thick mist grew, And the moon, like a pallid smear, Was yellow through the gloomy cloud. In melancholy you sat bowed. But now, look through the window there! Snow underneath the clear blue skies Glitters in sunlight as it lies; A gorgeous coverlet it glows. Black though the wood's transparent screen, The fir-trees through the frost are green; The streams are bright beneath the floes. Now every room with amber light Is blazing. Crackling with delight The stove bursts into heat and flares. It's good to sit and dream to-day; But won't you tell them get the sleigh And harness up the chestnut mares? Across the slippery morning snow, My sweet companion, we shall go And let the restless horses race; We'll visit lonely fields of grass, Woods where in summer none can pass, And river-bank, my most loved place. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO WILLIAM WORDSWORTH; ON THE PUBLICATION OF HIS POEM, 'PETER BELL' by BERNARD BARTON AN EVENING PROSPECT by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER FERISHTAH'S FANCIES by ROBERT BROWNING INDIAN LULLABY by CLAUDE BRYAN PHYLLIS THE FAIR by ROBERT BURNS |