Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The summer goes, with all its birds and flowers Last Line: And peep unnoted there behind your screen. Subject(s): Summer | ||||||||
THE Summer goes, with all its birds and flowers; The Autumn passes with its solemn sky; The Winter comes again -- yet you and I Know not the old companionship once ours. The twilight mist between us hangs and lowers; Your face I see not -- voice I cannot hear. No letter tells me you in thought are near. The west-wind blows and sweeps away the showers, But from the west no whisper comes of you. Friends press around you in your distant home -- (Your distant home I never yet have seen,) And old familiar greetings still renew; While I with fancy's eyes alone can come And peep unnoted there behind your screen. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY CORRESPONDENCES; HEXAMETERS AND PENTAMETERS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH |
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