All hail! my brave, bright world of green and gold, My morning, smiling from the kiss of night! Your other lover greets you. Left and right The air's a-twitter in the sunshine bold, The air is praying in the shadowy wold. Sole lord am I of all this realm of sight, These swinging meadow sweeps, this proud delight Of ranking hills, these clouds just out of fold. Stoutly the sturdy road beneath my feet Rings me a morning welcome. Rise, my soul, The benediction of the sky to meet. Sound, color, fragrance, freshness -- mine the whole; Mine to receive, and haply mine to give: A kingly day, and kingly must I live. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A LITTLE CHRISTMAS BASKET by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR LYRICS TO IANTHE (2). LAMENT by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR JAMES MCCOSH by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941) IMPROMPTU ON AN INNKEEPER NAMED BACON by ROBERT BURNS TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. TO ONE IN TROUBLE by EDWARD CARPENTER |