Upon the "Chimneys" yesterday We sat beneath the trees While sang the birds and softly blew The flower scented breeze. You should have been with us upon Those "Chimney Rocks" and seen The golden sun in grandeur sink Behind the hill-tops green. Like bars across the western sky Such gorgeous streaks of red, Such brilliant hues of yellow Of blue and pink were spread. So richly blended were those hues They cast a lovely splendor Which words cannot describe upon The budding tree tops tender. Had Rembrandt been with us I doubt Quite much if he on canvas Could have portrayed with brush and paint That sunset's loveliness. Long sat we on those moss grown rocks With eyes and minds untiring, The beauty and the grandeur of That sunset scene admiring. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AUTUMN SONG by KATHERINE MANSFIELD WALT WHITMAN by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON THE COMPLAINT OF CHAUCER TO HIS EMPTY PURSE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER ON THE HOME GUARDS; WHO PERISHED ... LEXINGTON, MISSOURI by HERMAN MELVILLE THE GOAT PATHS by JAMES STEPHENS EMBLEMS OF LOVE: CUPID TO CHLOE WEEPING; A SONNET by PHILIP AYRES SONG: 2 by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ALFARABI; THE WORLD-MAKER. A RHAPSODICAL FRAGMENT by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES |