Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHISPERING FROM THE TREES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO First Line: Did you ever hear the voices Last Line: "in the breeze, ""good night! Good night!" Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness | ||||||||
Did you ever hear the voices In the leaflets of the trees, When at earliest morn they waken At the kisses of the breeze? Did you hear them laugh and prattle, Moan and sigh o'er hopes forlorn? Did you see them dance and flitter? As to say: "Good morn! Good morn!" Have you e'er at noon's bright hour, In the heat and toil of day, Stopped beneath some branch's shadow, Thrown across the dusty way! And as you, in darkest coolness, Caught the phantom of a tune, Did not every quivering leaflet Whisper soft, "'Tis golden noon?" And, at twilight's holy hour When the bee had gone to rest, And the sun, in royal garments, Disappeared beyond the west, Then a thousand sweet, low voices Sing and laugh in weird delight; Or, in gentle sadness, whisper In the breeze, "Good night! Good night!" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONOMA FIRE by JANE HIRSHFIELD AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS by JOHN HOLLANDER WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE by JUNE JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 19 by JAMES JOYCE DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS by LEONIE ADAMS A DREAM OF LIFE by MIRIAM DEL BANCO A FLOW'RET IN THE GARLAND; FOR OUT GREAT CENTENARIAN by MIRIAM DEL BANCO |
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