A lover of the moorland bare And honest country winds, you were; The silver-skimming rain you took; And loved the floodings of the brook, Dew, frost and mountains, fire and seas, Tumultuary silences, Winds that in darkness fifed a tune, And the high-riding, virgin moon. And as the berry, pale and sharp, Springs on some ditch's counterscarp In our ungenial, native north -- You put your frosted wildings forth, And on the heath, afar from man, A strong and bitter virgin ran. The berry ripened keeps the rude And racy flavour of the wood. And you that loved the empty plain All redolent of wind and rain, Around you still the curlew sings -- The freshness of the weather clings -- The maiden jewels of the rain Sit in your dabbled locks again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MITHERLESS BAIRN by WILLIAM THOM THE MORAL FABLES: THE TALE OF THE COCK, AND THE JEWEL by AESOP KNOW THYSELF by WILLIAM ARBUTHNOT ENIGMA. TO THE LADIES by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE BOOK OF EXODUS: SONG OF THE SEA by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE HYMN WRITTEN IN DESPONDENCY by ANN ELIZA BLEECKER THE GOLDEN ODES OF PRE-ISLAMIC ARABIA: ANTARA by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |