Pray to what earth does this sweet cold belong, Which asks no duties and no conscience? The moon goes up by leaps, her cheerful path In some far summer stratum of the sky, While stars with their cold shine bedot her way. The fields gleam mildly back upon the sky, And far and near upon the leafless shrubs The snow dust still emits a silver light. Under the hedge, where drift banks are their screen, The titmice now pursue their downy dreams, As often in the sweltering summer nights The bee doth drop asleep in the flower cup, When evening overtakes him with his load. By the brooksides, in the still, genial night, The more adventurous wanderer may hear The crystals shoot and form, and winter slow Increase his rule by gentlest summer means. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MORTAL COMBAT by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE THE EVE OF ST. AGNES by JOHN KEATS CALVARY by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON MAUD MULLER by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER WHEN THE SULTAN GOES TO ISPAHAN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH ON THE STATUE OF AN ANGEL, BY BIENAIME by WASHINGTON ALLSTON BOTHWELL: PART 5 by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN SONNETS OF MANHOOD: 38. THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |