THOUGH now no more the musing ear Delights to listen to the breeze, That lingers o'er the green wood shade, I love thee, winter! well. Sweet are the harmonies of spring, Sweet is the summer's evening gale, And sweet the autumnal winds that shake The many-coloured grove. And pleasant to the sobered soul The silence of the wintry scene, When nature shrouds her in her trance In deep tranquillity. Not undelightful now to roam The wild health sparkling on the sight; Not undelightful now to pace The forest's ample rounds; And see the spangled branches shine, And mark the moss of many a hue That varies the old tree's brown bark, Or o'er the gray stone spreads. And mark the clustered berries bright Amid the holly's gay green leaves; The ivy round the leafless oak That clasps its foliage close. So virtue diffident of strength Clings to religion's firmer aid, And by religion's aid upheld Endures calamity. Nor void of beauties now the spring, Whose waters hid from summer sun Have soothed the thirsty pilgrim's ear With more than melody. The green moss shines with icy glare; The long grass bends its spear-like form; And lovely is the silvery scene When faint the sun-beams smile. Reflection, too, may love the hour When nature, hid in winter's grave, No more expands the bursting bud, Or bids the flowret bloom. For nature soon in spring's best charms Shall rise revived from winter's grave, Again expand the bursting bud, And bid the flowret bloom. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TROUBLE IN DE KITCHEN by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY PROVINCIA DESERTA by EZRA POUND AN EPITAPH, ON A FOOLISH BOASTER by PHILIP AYRES EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 25. ENVY ACCOMPANIES LOVE by PHILIP AYRES POETRY: WHAT IS IT? by LEVI BISHOP CONFLICT BEFORE VICTORY by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON SONG: A LADY, RESCUED FROM DEATH BY A KNIGHT, WHO LEAVES HER by THOMAS CAREW |