Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEIGES D'ANTAN, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poet's Biography First Line: Sunlight, and birds, and blossom on the trees Last Line: That sun is set, and mute the spirit that sang. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Youth | ||||||||
SUNLIGHT, and birds, and blossom on the trees What, O my heart, is wanting more than these? What shall content if these may not avail? ... Once on a time 'twas joy enough to lie Beneath the young leaves and the limpid sky, A spell-bound traveller in a fairy-tale. Oh! nevermore for us the Palace of Spring, No more those haunted chambers echoing Sweet, sweet and hollow, to the cuckoo's song; Filled with a mellow lustre all day long, And lit by golden lamps at evening. No more the enchanted woodstheir purple haze Enveils them yetbut closed are all the ways The elfin meadows glimmer, deep in dew, Misty with flowersbut we have lost the clue; There is no path into the magic maze. These were Youth's emissaries, every one, The darting birds between the orchard snows. 'Twas Youth that blossomed lovelier than the rose, And Youth that fluted in the blackbird's throat, And Youth that steered the sun's great golden boat, The westering golden galley of the sun. Youth comes no more for evereven although The fields take flower again, and lilacs blow, And pointed leaf-buds gather on the vine: Even although the sun should sail and shine Bright as of old, and all the thickets rang That sun is set, and mute the spirit that sang. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY THE BLACK RIVIERA by MARK JARMAN A SONG OF LONDON by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON |
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