ABOVE the frozen floods Gay feet keep time, Steel-shod, their measures beat Insistent rhyme. No cares oppress the hearts Glad youth makes light; The winter skies and happy eyes Alike are bright. Shores where the summer waves Have whispered low, Echo the skaters' song, As to and fro Glide flitting forms, And watch-fire's glow Leaps into frosty air And crimsons snow. Fly, skaters, with wing'd feet! The night wears on; Be your stroke ne'er so fleet, Night soon is gone. With morning's dawn, the fires In ashes lie, And mountains keep their ward Silently by. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PEACE (2) by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON QUESTION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: JUDGE SELAH LIVELY by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HOMAGE TO SEXTUS PROPERTIUS: 4. DIFFERENCE OF OPINION WITH LYGDAMUS by EZRA POUND |