WHEN loud by landside streamlets gush, And clear in the greenwood quires the thrush, With sun on the meadows And songs in the shadows, Comes again to me The gift of the tongues of the lea, The gift of the tongues of meadows. Straightway my olden heart returns And dances with the dancing burns, It sings with the sparrows; To the rain and the (grimy) barrows Sings my heart aloud -- To the silver bellied cloud, To the silver rainy arrows. It bears the song of the skylark down, And it hears the singing of the town, And youth on the highways And lovers in byways, Follows and sees: And hearken the song of the leas And sings the songs of the highways. So when the earth is alive with gods And the lusty ploughman breaks the sods, And the grass sings in the meadows, And the flowers smile in the shadows, Sits my heart at ease, Hearing the song of the leas, Singing the songs of the meadows. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HYBRIDS OF WAR: A MORALITY POEM: 4. THE MORAL by KAREN SWENSON A,B,C by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY LIMERICK by OLIVER BROOK HERFORD AT A VACATION EXERCISE IN THE COLLEGE by JOHN MILTON AMERICA by SAMUEL FRANCIS SMITH WOMEN'S WAR THOUGHTS by MARY HUNTER AUSTIN L'INDIFFERENT; WATTEAU; THE LOUVRE by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY |