CLOUDS spout upon her Their waters amain In ruthless disdain, - Her who but lately Had shivered with pain As at touch of dishonour If there had lit on her So coldly, so straightly Such arrows of rain: One who to shelter Her delicate head Would quicken and quicken Each tentative tread If drops chanced to pelt her That summertime spills In dust-paven rills When thunder-clouds thicken And birds close their bills. Would that I lay there And she were housed here! Or better, together Were folded away there Exposed to one weather We both, - who would stray there When sunny the day there, Or evening was clear At the prime of the year. Soon will be growing Green blades from her mound, And daisies be showing Like stars on the ground, Till she form part of them - Ay - the sweet heart of them, Loved beyond measure With a child's pleasure All her life's round. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SPIRIT OF SHAKESPEARE: 1 by GEORGE MEREDITH THE VICAR by WINTHROP MACKWORTH PRAED LA SAISIAZ: PROLOGUE by ROBERT BROWNING MENDING BRUSH FENCE IN VERMONT by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY ALL SAINTS' DAY (1867) by ADA CAMBRIDGE AULD REIKIE by ROBERT FERGUSSON |