Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GOD'S WEATHER: MAY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL First Line: There's a blurr'd roll of drumbeats. The soft south wind straying Last Line: With the sigh of the southwind, the balm of god's weather. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Months; Old Age; Spring | ||||||||
There's a blurr'd roll of drumbeats. The soft south wind straying In to fresh whitewashed walls, in thro' clean curtains swaying; Stealing warm over birdbills, honeysuckles a-Maying, Over piled baskets swinging from plied knockers' playing; Past peonies, trilliums, syringas, outstaying The first flush of spring; in from gardens fresh growing, Clean swept; On where, close-ranged, the head-stones are showing Enwreathed and enshrined in love's full-tide outflowing, Starr'd with flags under battle-shot, stained banners streaming Down the long aisles' new shadowsthe enfilading fifes screaming To drumbeats. And slow feet, as the last salute flashes, Step softlyrapt dreamersdown the ranked graves' heal'd gashes, Back with Duty's shocked call while the war-fury lashes The Call's cause, the conflict, war's upper and nether; The Call's cause and Fame's upmost, or ungratefulest nether, With the futile fife's screaming, the drumbeat's worn leather, Halting back down the long dusty streetback together, With the wearisome years, thro' the evening, together, With the sigh of the southwind, the balm of God's weather. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD COMING HOME by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL |
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