LOOK at the stars! look, look up at the skies! O look at all the fire-folk sitting in the air! The bright boroughs, the circle-citadels there! Down in dim woods the diamond delves! the elves'-eyes! The grey lawns cold where gold, where quickgold lies! Wind-beat whitebeam! airy abeles set on a flare! Flake-doves sent floating forth at a farmyard scare! -- Ah well! it is all a purchase, all is a prize. Buy then! bid then! -- What? -- Prayer, patience, aims, vows. Look, look: a May-mess, like on orchard boughs! Look! March-bloom, like on mealed-with-yellow sallows! These are indeed the barn; withindoors house The shocks. This piece-bright paling shuts the spouse Christ home, Christ and his mother and all his hallows. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOUND NO'TH BLUES by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES INSPIRATION by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1822-1882) VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1876 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI AGE IN YOUTH by TRUMBULL STICKNEY THE HIGHER PANTHEISM IN A NUTSHELL by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE GREENES FUNERALLS: SONNET 11 by RICHARD BARNFIELD |