Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ONE WHO COMES NOW AND THEN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poet's Biography First Line: When you come in, it seems a brighter fire Last Line: Above you smile or frown. Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Change; June | ||||||||
WHEN you come in, it seems a brighter fire Crackles upon the hearth invitingly, The household routine which was wont to tire Grows full of novelty. You sit upon our home-upholstered chair And talk of matters wonderful and strange, Of books, and travel, customs old which dare The gods of Time and Change. Till we with inner word our care refute Laughing that this our bosoms yet assails, While there are maidens dancing to a flute In Andalusian vales. And sometimes from my shelf of poems you take And secret meanings to our hearts disclose, As when the winds of June the mid bush shake We see the hidden rose. And when the shadows muster, and each tree A moment flutters, full of shutting wings, You take the fiddle and mysteriously Wake wonders on the strings. And in my garden, grey with misty flowers, Low echoes fainter than a beetle's horn Fill all the corners with it, like sweet showers Of bells, in the owl's morn. Come often, friend, with welcome and surprise We'll greet you from the sea or from the town; Come when you like and from whatever skies Above you smile or frown. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JUNE (1) by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: JUNE by EDMUND SPENSER JUNE BRACKEN AND HEATHER by ALFRED TENNYSON ADLESTROP by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS CLOUDY JUNE by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN WHEN JUNE IS COME by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES TO A JUNE BREEZE by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER JUNE'S COMING by JOHN BURROUGHS EVENING CLOUDS by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE |
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