By loch and darkening river, Above the salt sea-plains, Across the misty mountains Amid the blinding rains, In fierce or silent weather The wild swans southward fare, The wild swans swing together Through lonely fields of air, Crying @3Honk, Honk, Honk, Glugulû, ullalû, glugulû, Honk! Honk!@1 The seamew's lonely laughter Flits down the flowing wave, The green scarts follow after The surge where cross-tides rave: The sea-duck's mellow wailing Floats over sheltered places, And southward, southward sailing Go all the feathered races. . . . When the swans cry @3Honk, Honk, Glugulû, ullalû, glugulû, Honk! Honk!@1 White spirits from the Northland, Grey clan of Storm and Frost, Wind-swooping to the Southland From icy-seas blast-tost. . . . Wild clan of sons and daughters, A welcome, now you are come When all your polar waters Are frozen, white, and dumb! . . . Crying @3Honk, Honk, Honk, Glugulû, ullalû, glugulû, Honk! Honk!@1 | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AUTUMN DIALOGUE by LOUIS UNTERMEYER ADVICE TO A RAVEN IN RUSSIA by JOEL BARLOW THE SOUTH COUNTRY by HILAIRE BELLOC THE BUNCH OF GRAPES by GEORGE HERBERT THE ENAMEL GIRL by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD TO THE EARL OF WARWICK ON THE DEATH OF MR. ADDISON by THOMAS TICKELL PIONEERS! O PIONEERS! by WALT WHITMAN LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH |