O SUNBEAM, O sunbeam! I would be a sunbeam too! When the winter chill Hushes lark and rill; When the thunder-showers Bow the weeping flowers; When the shadows creep Cold, and dark, and deep, We would follow swift and bright, Blending all our love and light, Chasing winter, grim and hoary, Shining all the tears away; Turning all the gloom to glory, All the darkness into day. O dewdrop, O dewdrop, I would be a dewdrop too! When the fatal glow, Sultry, still, and slow, Makes the scentless flowers Droop in withering bowers, Leaf and shade and bloom Touched with early doom; We would follow, sweet and bright, Blending life and love and light: Making what was parched and dreary Glad and lovely, fresh and fair, Softly cheering what was weary, Sparkling, starlike, everywhere. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE GARDEN OF ADONIS by EMMA LAZARUS GEIST'S GRAVE by MATTHEW ARNOLD SIXTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL TAMERLANE (4) by EDGAR ALLAN POE THE TENDER HUSBAND: PROLOGUE by JOSEPH ADDISON |