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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HOUSE IN THE HEATH, by ANNETTE ELISABETH VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF First Line: Beneath yon fir trees in the west Last Line: The christ is born this even? Alternate Author Name(s): Droste-hulshoff, Annette Von | |||
BENEATH yon fir trees in the west, The sunset round it glowing, A cottage lies like bird on nest, With thatch roof hardly showing. And there across the window-sill Leans out a white-starred heifer; She snorts and stamps, then breathes her fill Of evening's balmy zephyr. Near-by reposes, hedged with thorn, A garden neatly tended; The sunflower looks about with scorn; The bell-flower's head is bended. And in the garden kneels a child, She weeds or merely dallies, A lily plucks with gesture mild And wanders down the alleys. A shepherd group in distance dim Lie stretched upon the heather, And with a simple evening hymn Wake the still breeze together. And from the roomy threshing hall The hammer strokes ring cheery, The plane gives forth a crunching drawl, The rasping saw sounds weary. The evening star now greets the scene And smoothly soars above it, And o'er the cottage stands serene; He seems in truth to love it. A vision with such beauty crowned, Had pious monks observed it, They straight upon a golden ground Had painted and preserved it. The carpenter, the herdsmen there A pious choral sounding; The maiden with the lily fair, And peace the whole surrounding; The wondrous star that beams on all From out the fields of heaven May it not be that in the stall The Christ is born this even? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PENTECOST by ANNETTE ELISABETH VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF THE BOY ON THE MOOR by ANNETTE ELISABETH VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF THE DESOLATE HOUSE by ANNETTE ELISABETH VON DROSTE-HULSHOFF MATRES DOLOROSAE by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES IN MEMORIAM by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN THE LAST TOAST by MARY COLES CARRINGTON THE CANTERBURY TALES: THE SHIPMAN'S TALE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER STATUS QUO by H. BINGA DISMOND THE LEPRECHAUN by JOHN FREEMAN |
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