I. THE Sweet-briar flowering, With boughs embowering, Beside the willow-tufted stream, In its soft red bloom, And its wild perfume, Brings back the past like a sunny dream! II. Methinks, in childhood, Beside the wildwood I lie, and listen the blackbird's song, 'Mid the evening calm, As the Sweet-briar's balm On the gentle west wind breathes along— III. To speak of meadows, And palm-tree shadows, And bee-hive cones, and a thymy hill, And greenwood mazes, And greensward daisies, And a foamy stream, and a clacking mill. IV. Still the heart rejoices At the happy voices Of children, singing amid their play; While swallows twittering, And waters glittering, Make earth an Eden at close of day. V. In sequestered places, Departed faces, Return and smile as of yore they smiled; When, with trifles blest, Each buoyant breast Held the trusting heart of a little child. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HORACE TO LEUCONOE by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON DAYS TOO SHORT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE DESERTED PLANTATION by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE FIRST DAY: THE BIRDS OF KILLINGWORTH by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 2. ADVICE TO THE STOUT by JOHN ARMSTRONG PSALM 9. CONFITEBOR TIBI by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE THE BLACK RIDERS: 34 by STEPHEN CRANE |