BLAND as the morning breath of June The southwest breezes play; And, through its haze, the winter noon Seems warm as summer's day. The snow-plumed Angel of the North Has dropped his icy spear; Again the mossy earth looks forth Again the streams gush clear. The fox his hillside cell forsakes, The muskrat leaves his nook, The bluebird in the meadow brakes Is singing with the brook. "Bear up, O Mother Nature!" cry Bird, breeze, and streamlet free; "Our winter voices prophesy Of summer days to thee!" So, in those winters of the soul, By bitter blasts and drear O'erswept from Memory's frozen pole, Will sunny days appear. Reviving Hope and Faith, they show The soul its living powers, And how beneath the winter's snow Lie germs of summer flowers! The Night is mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling. Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all His works, Has left His hope with all! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IDYLLS OF THE KING: BALIN AND BALAN by ALFRED TENNYSON THE DAY-DREAM: THE SLEEPING BEAUTY by ALFRED TENNYSON ST. MARTIN'S WALL by ANTON ALEXANDER VON AUERSPERG THE OLD SCOTTISH CAVALIER by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN LINES WITH A WEDDING PRESENT by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD OMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN LETTER TO JAMES TENNANT OF GLENCONNER by ROBERT BURNS |