Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BALLADE OF MIDSUMMER DAYS AND NIGHTS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With a ripple of leaves and a tinkle of streams Last Line: Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): Midsummer Days And Nights Subject(s): Nature; Summer | ||||||||
WITH a ripple of leaves and a tinkle of streams The full world rolls in a rhythm of praise, And the winds are one with the clouds and beams -- Midsummer days! midsummer days! The dusk grows vast; in a purple haze, While the west from a rapture of sunset rights, Faint stars their exquisite lamps upraise -- Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! The wood's green heart is a nest of dreams, The lush grass thickens and springs and sways, The rathe wheat rustles, the landscape gleams -- Midsummer days! midsummer days! In the stilly fields, in the stilly ways, All secret shadows and mystic lights, Late lovers murmurous linger and gaze -- Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! There's a music of bells from the trampling teams, Wild skylarks hover, the gorses blaze, The rich ripe rose as with incense steams -- Midsummer days! midsummer days! A soul from the honeysuckle strays, And the nightingale as from prophet heights Sings to the earth of her million Mays -- Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! ENVOY. And it's oh! for my dear, and the charm that stays -- Midsummer days! midsummer days! It's oh! for my love, and the dark that plights -- Midsummer nights! O midsummer nights! | 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 BALLADE OF DEAD ACTORS by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY |
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