Through deep and clear and singing Northern waters, Like some quick shimmering silver flash you played, And dipped and darted through a magic river That flowed from lofty mountain peaks and strayed Through hidden forests. You have lived amid Lost beauty; and, unhearing, you have heard Nature's strange stillness, and the sudden song Or calling heartbreak of a lone wild bird. You breathed an air through ancient pine trees blown, And cooled by glaciers and an arctic sea. You wandered through the land where vikings roamed And made great sagas ring in history! What heresy that now glad cries we utter To see you swimming here in melted butter. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FIRST VOYAGE OF JOHN CABOT [1497] by KATHARINE LEE BATES ALMSWOMEN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN PAST AND PRESENT by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON IRELAND; A SEASIDE PORTRAIT by JOHN JAMES PIATT THE DARK HILLS by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 13 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |