Yet one smile more, departing, distant sun! One mellow smile through the soft vapory air, Ere, o'er the frozen earth, the loud winds run, Or snows are sifted o'er the meadows bare. One smile on the brown hills and naked trees, And the dark rocks whose summer wreaths are cast, And the blue gentian flower, that, in the breeze, Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last. Yet a few sunny days, in which the bee Shall murmur by the hedge that skirts the way, The cricket chirp upon the russeet lea, And man delight to linger in thy ray. Yet one rich smile, and we will try to bear The piercing winter frost, and winds, and darkened air. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SELF-DEPENDENCE by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE CROSS OF SNOW by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SISTER HELEN by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 82. HOARDED JOY by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI MINNIE AND WINNIE by ALFRED TENNYSON |