(1) The Red-Bud, the Kentucky Tree, Bloomed the spring to life for me In Freelands; and the Mocking Bird -- Nimble chorister of glee, Sweet as poet ever heard In a world of ecstasy -- Sang the summer, and the sun; Sang the summer in to me. (2) The spring is gone! The summer gone! The Cardinal has gone away! The fire-flies, dancing on the lawn, -- Each a little moon at play -- Are gone, with summer, gone away! And, where green acres were aglow, Daisy munches in the snow! (3) A snowy field! A stable piled With straw! A donkey's sleepy pow! A mother beaming on a child! A manger, and a munching cow! -- These we all remember now -- And airy voices, heard afar! And three Magicians, and a Star! (4) Two thousand times of snow declare That on the Christmas of the year There is a singing in the air; And all who listen for it hear A fairy chime, a seraph strain, Telling He is born again, -- That all we love is born again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WILDERNESS TRANSFORMED by PHILIP DODDRIDGE TO THE PLIOCENE SKULL by FRANCIS BRET HARTE IMPROMPTU TO LADY WINCHILSEA by ALEXANDER POPE SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 34. FAIRY LAND by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) AN ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM HOPTON by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) |