Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COMING SUMMER, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poet's Biography First Line: What will the summer bring Last Line: Summer, all hail! Subject(s): Summer | ||||||||
WHAT will the summer bring? Sunshine and flowers, Brightness and melody, Golden-voiced hours; Rose-gleaming mornings Vocal with praise; Crimson-flushed evenings, Nightingale lays. What may the summer bring? Gladness and mirth, Laughter and song, For the children of earth; Smiles for the old man, Joy for the strong, Glee for the little ones All the day long. What will the summer bring? Coolness and shade, Eloquent stillness In thicket and glade; Whispering breezes, Fragrance oppressed; Lingering twilight Soothing to rest. What may the summer bring? Freshness and calm To the care-worn and troubled, Beauty and balm. O toil-weary spirit, Rest thee anew, For the heat of the world-race Summer hath dew! What will the summer bring? Sultry noon hours, Lurid horizons, Frowning cloud-towers! Loud-crashing thunders, Tempest and hail, Death-bearing lightnings, It brings without fail. What may the summer bring? Dimness and woe, Blackness of sorrow Its bright days may know; Flowers may be wormwood, Verdure a pall, The shadow of death On the fairest may fall. Is it not ever so? Where shall we find Light that may cast No shadow behind? Calm that no tempest May darkly await? Joy that no sorrow May swiftly abate? Will the story of summer Be written in light, Or traced in the darkness Of storm-cloud and night? We know not -- we would not know; Why should we quail? Summer, we welcome thee! Summer, all hail! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY CONSECRATION HYMN by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL I DID THIS FOR THEE! WHAT HAST THOU DONE FOR ME? by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL A BIRTHDAY GREETING TO MY FATHER, 1860 by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL |
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