Unseen buds, infinite, hidden well, Under the snow and ice, under the darkness, in every square or cubic inch, Germinal, exquisite, in delicate lace, microscopic, unborn, Like babes in wombs, latent, folded, compact, sleeping; Billions of billions, and trillions of trillions of them waiting, (On earth and in the sea -- the universe -- the stars there in the heavens,) Urging slowly, surely forward, forming endless, And waiting ever more, forever more behind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DAY: MORNING by JOHN CUNNINGHAM A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 1. 1887 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN THE BURDEN OF NINEVEH by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE THE MOUNTAIN TOMB: 1. TO A CHILD DANCING IN THE WIND by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ON A YOUNG BRIDE DROWNED IN THE BOSPHORUS by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN |