HE sang of brooks, and trees, and flowers, Of mountain tarns, of wood-wild bowers, The wisdom of the starry skies, The mystery of childhood's eyes, The violet's scent, the daisy's dress, The timid breeze's shy caress. Whilst England waged her fiery wars He praised the silence of the stars, And clear and sweet as upland rills The gracious wisdom of her hills. Save once when Clifford's fate he sang, And bugle-like his lyric rang, He prized the ways of lowly men, And trod, with them, the moor and fen. Fair Nature to this lover dear Bent low to whisper or to hear The secrets of her sky and earth, In gentle Words of golden Worth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STATE OF WYOMING by KAREN SWENSON THE LITTLE PEACH by EUGENE FIELD THE GARDEN SEAT by THOMAS HARDY SONNET: DANTE (2) by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS RODGERSON'S DOUG by WILLIAM AITKEN HOMAGE TO QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENTIS CHRISTIANUS (1) by ANYTE |