Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SUMMER MOOD, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me! For evermore, for evermore Last Line: And who shall make the solemn mystery clear? Subject(s): Summer | ||||||||
"Now, by my faith a gruesome mood, for summer!" -- THOMAS HEYWARD (1597). AH, me! for evermore, for evermore These human hearts of ours must yearn and sigh, While down the dells and up the murmurous shore Nature renews her immortality. The heavens of June stretch calm and bland above, June roses blush with tints of Orient skies, But we, by graves of joy, desire, and love, Mourn in a world which breathes of Paradise! The sunshine mocks the tears it may not dry, The breezes -- tricksy couriers of the air -- Child-roisterers winged, and lightly fluttering by -- Blow their gay trumpets in the face of care; And bolder winds, the deep sky's passionate speech, Woven into rhythmic raptures of desire, Or fugues of mystic victory, sadly reach Our humbled souls, to rack, not raise them higher! The field-birds seem to twit us as they pass With their small blisses, piped so clear and loud; The cricket triumphs o'er us in the grass, And the lark, glancing beamlike up the cloud, Sings us to scorn with his keen rhapsodies; Small things and great unconscious tauntings bring To edge our cares, whilst we, the proud and wise, Envy the insect's joy, the birdling's wing! And thus for evermore, till time shall cease, Man's soul and Nature's -- each a separate sphere -- Revolve, the one in discord, one in peace, And who shall make the solemn mystery clear? | 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 A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS) by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE |
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