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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOUNTAIN SUNRISE, by MARION DOYLE
First Line: Ah, hush
Last Line: And all the dreaming world is quick.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
First Line: Ah, hush
Last Line: And all the dreaming world is quick.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise
Ah, hush . . .
A shadow falls across the hawthorn trees,
And like a rush
Of summer rain,
A thrush
Lets fall upon the first faint morning breeze
A chain of notes like scattered beads,
As crystal as the ones that edge
The monkshood at my knees.
Quiet . . .
After his startling song's bright rhetoric,
After its riot,
Silence.
A silence like a new-trimmed wick
That waits the touch of flame;
Silence that holds the mystery of night;
Silence that seems the secret of all light;
That sense of Presence, calm, divine, yet lowly,
Which seems to make a woodland silence holy --
Ah, hush . . .
Again,
The thrush!
The sun has touched the waiting wick
And all the dreaming world is quick.
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