The muffled sobbing of a storm-scourged sea; The heartache of a lonely hemlock tree; The anthems that the stars of morning sing; A brook's thanksgiving when is born the Spring; The laughter of young birch leaves, drenched with dew; The rapture creeping meadow grasses through; The challenge of the pennons of the corn; A thrush's welcome to the rosy morn; The matin chime of bluebells softly rung; The elm's Magnificat when June is young; The salutation of wind-wakened grain; The benediction of midsummer rain; The drowsy plaint drifting through August noons; The call of nightingales to August moons; The soft lament of withered walnut leaves; The memories of garnered barley sheaves; The song the heart sings when its lord is come; The thoughts whose exaltation strikes lips dumb; A soul's mute answer to a soul's mute call; The longings that are prayers — it voices all! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO A POET, WHO WOULD HAVE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS ... by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS ADVICE TO A RAVEN IN RUSSIA by JOEL BARLOW AD S. ANGELUM CUSTODEM by JOSEPH BEAUMONT S. JAMES BP. OF JERUSALEM by JOSEPH BEAUMONT FORMALITY AND THE SOUL: 2. JAMES MACNEIL WHISTLER by KARL W. BIGELOW THE COLOSSI OF THE PLAIN by MATHILDE BLIND DISTANCES by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |