This darksome burn, horseback brown, His rollrock highroad roaring down, In coop and in comb the fleece of his foam Flutes and low to the lake falls home. A windpuff-bonnet of fawn froth Turns and twindles over the broth Of a pool so pitchblack, fell-frowning. It rounds and rounds Despair to drowning. Degged with dew, dappled with dew Are the groins of the braes that the brook treads through, Wiry heathpacks, flitches of fern, And the beadbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MARRIAGE by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS A CHRISTMAS CAROL by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND ON A MAGAZINE SONNET by RUSSELL HILLARD LOINES THE HARVEST MOON; SONNET by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SONNET: 8. WHEN THE ASSAULT WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY by JOHN MILTON SONNET: 73 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE FADED VIOLET by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |