Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WINDSWEPT WHEAT, by MARY AINGE DE VERE First Line: Faint, faint, and clear Last Line: Life's chords all answer from the windswept wheat! Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline | ||||||||
FAINT, faint and clear, Faint as the music that in dreams we hear Shaking the curtain-fold of sleep, That shuts away The world's hoarse voice, the sights and sounds of day, Her sorry joys, her phantoms false and fleet, -- So softly, softly stirs The wind's low murmur in the rippled wheat. From west to east The warm breath blows, the slender heads droop low As if in prayer; Again, more lightly tossed in merry play, They bend and bow and sway With measured beat, But never rest, -- through shadow and through sun Goes on the tender rustle of the wheat. Dreams more than sleep Fall on the listening heart and lull its care; Dead years send back Some treasured, unforgotten tune. Ah, long ago, When sun and sky were sweet, In happy noon, We stood breast-high, mid waves of ripened grain, And heard the wind make music in the wheat. Not for to-day-- Not for this hour alone--the melody So soft and ceaseless thrills the dreamer's ear: Of all that was and is, of all that yet shall be, It holds a part. Love, sorrow, longing, pain, The restlessness that yearns, The thirst that burns, The bliss that like a fountain overflows, The deep repose, Good that we might have known, but shall not know, The hope God took, the joy He made complete, -- Life's chords all answer from the windswept wheat! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A BREATH by MARY AINGE DE VERE A FAREWELL by MARY AINGE DE VERE CHILDREN: THE BOY-CHILD by MARY AINGE DE VERE CHILDREN: THE GIRL-CHILD by MARY AINGE DE VERE FAITH TREMBLING by MARY AINGE DE VERE FRIEND AND LOVER by MARY AINGE DE VERE GOD KEEP YOU by MARY AINGE DE VERE POET AND LARK by MARY AINGE DE VERE THE SPINNER by MARY AINGE DE VERE THE THIRD PROPOSITION by MARY AINGE DE VERE |
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