Alone in rain I sat today On top of a gate beside the way, And a bird came near with muted bill, And a watery breeze kept blowing chill From over the hill behind me. I could not tell what in me stirred To hill and gate and rain and bird, Till lifting hair and bathing brow The watery breeze came fresher now From over the hill to remind me. The bird was the kind that follows a ship, The rain was salt upon my lip, The hill was an undergoing wave, And the gate on which I balanced brave Was a great ship's iron railing. For the breeze was a watery English breeze Always fresh from one of the seas, And the country life the English lead In beachen wood and clover mead Is never far from sailing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WOMEN WITH FABLED HAIR by MADELINE DEFREES GREEN RIVER by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT PRAYER OF THE LOST by ALETHEA TODD ALDERSON THE BIRDS: THE BUILDING OF CLOUDCUCKOOCITY by ARISTOPHANES THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 3 by WILLIAM BASSE BALLADE OF DREAMS TRANSPOSED by FRANK GELETT BURGESS |