I. THE Sweet-briar flowering, With boughs embowering, Beside the willow-tufted stream, In its soft red bloom, And its wild perfume, Brings back the past like a sunny dream! II. Methinks, in childhood, Beside the wildwood I lie, and listen the blackbird's song, 'Mid the evening calm, As the Sweet-briar's balm On the gentle west wind breathes along— III. To speak of meadows, And palm-tree shadows, And bee-hive cones, and a thymy hill, And greenwood mazes, And greensward daisies, And a foamy stream, and a clacking mill. IV. Still the heart rejoices At the happy voices Of children, singing amid their play; While swallows twittering, And waters glittering, Make earth an Eden at close of day. V. In sequestered places, Departed faces, Return and smile as of yore they smiled; When, with trifles blest, Each buoyant breast Held the trusting heart of a little child. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PARTING AT MORNING by ROBERT BROWNING UPON HIS SPANIEL [SPANIELL] TRACIE by ROBERT HERRICK ENDYMION by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 7 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE CRACKED BELL by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE |