Setting of summer all golden and sun's setting Glory kindle in a garden where flower-knots glow Like a pane of jewelled stain from the lattice fallen low, High that was holden in the wide west's fiery fretting. Hummeth around it unceasing the land, hummeth Loud with drone of the wheels that whir gathering rich gain, Field by field bereft must yield, with each amber-beaded grain Man's hoard increasing ere the wintry dearth-day cometh. Guerdon of toil 'mid the blossoms, a rare guerdon, Filmy wings quiver questing and murmurous make Fragrant air round bud-lips fair, for the dew-pure nectar's sake Hid in their bosoms, now the honey-bee's sweet burden. Golden the granary's harvest, the hive's golden, Rapt from troubling of storm-blast, from frost-blight's despair; So be wise 'neath smiling skies, so, ere all thy world lie bare, Store -- else thou starvest -- store memories dear and olden. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONG OF THE RABBITS OUTSIDE THE TAVERN by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH LIFE'S MIRROR by MARY AINGE DE VERE THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 23. LOVE'S BAUBLES by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: ON MY TWENTY-FOURTH YEAR by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON SOUND IN SILENCE by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE CONTRAST BETWEEN TWO LORDS AT THEIR EXECUTION by JOHN BYROM AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE KINGS GOOD NIGHT by THOMAS CAMPION |