IS this sad void all that is left of Spring, Of fire and dream, of quick and delicate days? And must all they who pass along these ways, Come to this silence of remembering? I, too, in the young year have had a part; Once was it hard to doubt as hard to grieve; So easy once, so easy to believe! -- Now all my harvest is a troubled heart. Yet has not doubt its place, and so its right? Its dreams and visions, faint but unforgot? Its longing mood whence breaks some sure, glad thing, Higher than shrine, or star, or evenlight? Lord of the stubble, though I see Thee not, About me sounds the Rumor of the Spring! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OCTAVES: 16 by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON BEFORE THE BIRTH OF ONE OF HER CHILDREN by ANNE BRADSTREET A NEGRO LOVE SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE PALM TREE by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS LINES WRITTEN ON HEARING THE NEWS OF THE DEATH OF NAPOLEON by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE INNOCENT MAGICIAN; OR, A CHARM AGAINST LOVE by PHILIP AYRES THE DEBT by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE GLORIOUS GIFT OF GOD by BENJAMIN BEDDOME MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE BEST ROOM by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH |