Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RAINBOW, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography First Line: The fairies built a bridge Last Line: From here to far-away. Subject(s): April; Rain; Rainbows; Spring | ||||||||
THE fairies built a bridge From Here to Far-Away Of gossamer and mist, Upon an April day The fairies built a bridge As shining as a tear, As lovely as a dream, From Far-Away to Here. They borrowed from the sun, They bargained with the moon, A million dyes they stole From gardens rich with June; With crystal of the rain, With sapphire from the sea, With turquoise from the sky They built it cunningly. Then, lest some alien step Its shining arch might scale, They hid each rainbowed end In Opal-tinted veil And never, through the years, On any April day, Has mortal crossed the bridge From Here to Far-Away. | 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 A CHRISTMAS CHILD by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY |
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