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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RAIN-SWEPT GARDEN, by HENRY S. LOVEJOY
First Line: The heavy drops on the canna's leaf
Last Line: She rises to answer the bright sun's call.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Yale University
First Line: The heavy drops on the canna's leaf
Last Line: She rises to answer the bright sun's call.
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Yale University
THE heavy drops on the canna's leaf
Linger a moment ere they fall,
Spattering on the mould beneath.
The spider's web by the crumbling wall
Scarce bears on its fine-spun silken guys
The strain of its trembling burden's weight.
From the sodden earth gray mists arise,
Enshrouding the trees with a ghostly state.
The blossoms droop on their curving stalks;
The bedraggled birds on the sinking boughs
Sit silent and shiv'ring; the gravel walks
Are muddy streams between bordering sloughs
Of tangled grass and pasty earth.
Nature lies resting under a pall
Ere in the beauty and strength of new birth
She rises to answer the bright sun's call.
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