MIRACULOUS morning! Frost and sun! But you, delightful friend, sleep on. 'Tis time for beauty to bestir. Open your soft and drowsy eyes To greet the Dawn in northern skies, A northern star to welcome her. Last night, remember, a wind blew; In the rough sky a thick mist grew, And the moon, like a pallid smear, Was yellow through the gloomy cloud. In melancholy you sat bowed. But now, look through the window there! Snow underneath the clear blue skies Glitters in sunlight as it lies; A gorgeous coverlet it glows. Black though the wood's transparent screen, The fir-trees through the frost are green; The streams are bright beneath the floes. Now every room with amber light Is blazing. Crackling with delight The stove bursts into heat and flares. It's good to sit and dream to-day; But won't you tell them get the sleigh And harness up the chestnut mares? Across the slippery morning snow, My sweet companion, we shall go And let the restless horses race; We'll visit lonely fields of grass, Woods where in summer none can pass, And river-bank, my most loved place. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BUSY HEART by RUPERT BROOKE THE MEMORY OF MARTHA by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR IN HOSPITAL: 23. MUSIC by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY GLADYS AND HER ISLAND; AN IMPERFECT TALE WITH DOUBTFUL MORAL by JEAN INGELOW SENEX TO MATT. PRIOR by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN A MARLOW MADRIGAL by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY SAW YE JOHNNIE COMIN'? by JOANNA BAILLIE |