Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING FROST, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON



Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

SPRING FROST, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You can feel it under your feet, this frost that silvers / the grass
Last Line: And the silvered beauty of frost on bloom like foam of the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Cold; Frost


YOU can feel it under your feet, this frost that silvers the grass,
Silvers it more than moonlight,—chills it to burnished wires
Pointing up at the light, where never a foot could pass
Save with a trail of dark among the soft moon-fires.

This is the orchard, filled with the milk-white petals of bloom,
Thick like foam of the sea, and moonlight over them all;
Moonlight, a shining flood,—moonlight, clear in the gloom,
On slender branches upraised under its silver fall.

Numberless flowering branches, still in the icy air—
Numberless bursting buds, that the frost holds chained through the night,
All of this glory of spring on plum and apple and pear,
Blooming frail in the cold, oh tremulous frail and white.

Now look, and look once more, ere you turn and pass on your way;
Oh look, lest tomorrow you lose, in the blackness of field and tree,
The spell of this whitest hour, before the coming of day,
And the silvered beauty of frost on bloom like foam of the sea.





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...



Home: PoetryExplorer.net