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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WOODLAND RHYME, by ALEXANDER BROWN Poet's Biography First Line: When spring's sweet life is young and fair Last Line: That touches mine. Subject(s): Nature | |||
WHEN Spring's sweet life is young and fair, While fields are green and woods are gay; When apple blossom scents the air, And sheds its beauty o'er the way; When snow-white clouds are sailing slow Across the sapphire depths of space, And make alternate gloom and glow On earth's fair face: What potent charm doth permeate All things around me, great and small; The forest monarchs, high in state -- The mosses on the mouldering wall; The flowery carpet of the green, Inwrought in Nature's wondrous loom, With fretted lights of sunny sheen, And tender gloom? What stirs the life-blood of the oak, When Winter's freezing days are flown, To from its naked boughs evoke The curly leaves of ruddy brown? The sycamores that proudly tower Burst into leaf beneath its sway, Nor can the ash befool its power By long delay. O, sweet the light of forest glades In the first flush of Summer's green; The fanning breeze, the waving shades, The glints of sunny light between; That gladdens all the vista'd scope, And breathes a peace that seems divine -- A spirit full of life and hope That touches mine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INTERRUPTED MEDITATION by ROBERT HASS TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN WRITING IS AN AID TO MEMORY: 17 by LYN HEJINIAN LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA IN MICHAEL ROBINS?ÇÖS CLASS MINUS ONE by HICOK. BOB BREADTH. CIRCLE. DESERT. MONARCH. MONTH. WISDOM by JOHN HOLLANDER VARIATIONS: 16 by CONRAD AIKEN UNHOLY SONNET 13 by MARK JARMAN |
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