Such musky smell of maiden night! Such bridal bough, like orange tree! Such wondrous stars! Yon lily moon Seems like some long-lost afternoon! More perfect than a string of pearls We hold the full days of the year; The days troop by like flower girls, And all the days are ours here. Here youth must learn; here age may live Full tide each day the year can give. No frosted wall, no frozen hasp, Shuts Nature's book from us today; Her palm leaves lift too high to clasp; Her college walls, the milky way. The light is with us! Read and lead! The larger book, the loftier deed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEMORY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH HERO AND LEANDER by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE ON THE NEW FORCES OF CONSCIENCE UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT by JOHN MILTON THE THREE HERMITS by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS AS THE NEW YEAR [18 B.C.] DAWNED by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |