Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AMBERELY WILDBROOKS, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poet's Biography First Line: By this bright river bordering the mead Last Line: Just as it will be in the endless dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John | ||||||||
BY this bright river bordering the mead Beflagged by reed and rush and willow tree, Where dragon-flies across the water lead The winged rout of noonday revelry, I stand ecstatic, silent, with a brain Bemused, as stand bemused the tawny kine, And hear high summer sink and lift again And feel its spirit stealing into mine. Here when in winter-time the wild brooks brimmed And with their salty flood annulled the earth, Till with a lake the dreaming down was rimmed, And wandering water-beauty came to birth, With floating birds, and the green icy sky, And far the sun so pale and pitying shone; Here on this bank, no less bemused, stood I Until the winter's mood and mine were one. Man is a dreamer, waking for a day, Until the wild brooks of oblivion brim; 'Tis well his waking self should slip away, And momentary dreaming comfort him; For so he learns, before the long sleep comes, That in himself revolves the starry scheme, In him the winter's mute, the summer hums, Just as it will be in the endless dream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ACCEPTATION by JOHN GALSWORTHY AT VALDEMOSA: MALLORCA by JOHN GALSWORTHY AUTUMN BY THE SEA by JOHN GALSWORTHY AVOWAL, FR. THE ROOF by JOHN GALSWORTHY BOTTICELLI'S 'PRIMAVERA' by JOHN GALSWORTHY |
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