A CLOUD fell down from the heavens, And broke on the mountain's brow; It scattered the dusky fragments All over the vale below. The moon and the stars were anxious To know what its fate might be; So they rushed to the azure op'ning, And all peered down to see. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FISH by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS UP IN THE MORNING EARLY by ROBERT BURNS IN MAY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR BOSTON COMMON: 1774 by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI by JOHN KEATS TO MRS. MARTHA BLOUNT (ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1723) by ALEXANDER POPE |