Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VERNAL PICTURES (WITHOUT AND WITHIN), by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid fresh roses wandering, and the soft Last Line: "song like the swallow darts through fancy's sky." Subject(s): Morning; Plants; Planting; Planters | ||||||||
AMID fresh roses wandering, and the soft And delicate wealth of apple-blossoms spread In tender spirals of blent white and red, Round the fair spaces of our blooming croft, This morn I caught the gurgling note, so oft Heard in the golden spring-tides that are dead, -- The swallow's note, murmuring of winter fled, Dropped silverly from passionless calms aloft: "O heart!" I said, "thy vernal depths unclose, That mirror Nature's; warm airs, come and go Of whispering ardors o'er thought's budded rose, And half-hid flowers of sweet philosophy; While now upglancing, now borne swift and low, Song like the swallow darts through fancy's sky." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KILLING THE PLANTS by JANE KENYON NOW I AM A PLANT, A WEED by KATHERINE MANSFIELD TANKA DIARY (5) by HARRYETTE MULLEN A STORM IN THE DISTANCE (AMONG THE GEORGIAN HILLS) by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE |
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