Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, RECONCILIATION, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

RECONCILIATION, by                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Out from the meadow, bathed in bright
Last Line: Quite right!
Subject(s): Reconciliation


OUT from the meadow, bathed in bright—
Bob—Bob—White!
An answer, back from the cool copse-height—
Bob—White!
The humdrum beetle drones his horn,
The cradling breezes lull the corn,
But still that truant call goes on—
Bob—Bob—White!
And back with keen Xantippe scorn—
Bob—White!

Out from the meadow's ling'ring light—
Bob—Bob—White!
An echo, back from the dark hill's height—
Bob—White!
The drowsy night-lids droop adown,
With ribbon'd rays her ringlets bound—
And still there echoeth 'round and 'round—
Bob—Bob—White!
And still from the hill that haughty sound—
Bob—White!

Faintly now from the copse-hill's height—
Bob—Bob—White!
And fainter yet, 'mid the soft twilight—
Bob—White!
Was that the chirruping sound of a kiss,
The star-beam's dream of a wedded bliss,
Or the faintest kind of a call like this—
Thy—Bob—White!
And the softest kind of an answer—'tis:
Quite right!





Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net