Calm and deep peace in this wide air, If any calm, a calm despair: Calm on the seas, and silver sleep, And waves that sway themselves in rest, And dead calm in that noble breast Which heaves but with the heaving deep. THE THROSTLE By Alfred Tennyson UMMER is coming, summer is coming. I know it, I know it, I know Light again, leaf again, life again, love again," Yes, my wild little Poet. Sing the new year in under the blue. Last year you sang it as gladly. "New, new, new, new!" Is it then so new That you should carol so madly? "Love again, song again, nest again, young again," Never a prophet so crazy! And hardly a daisy as yet, little friend, See, there is hardly a daisy. "Here again, here, here, here, happy year! APRIL DAYS (From "In Memoriam ") IP down upon the northern shore, O sweet new-year delaying long; Thou doest expectant nature wrong; Delaying long, delay no more. What stays thee from the clouded noons, Bring orchis, bring the foxglove spire, EARLY SPRING By Alfred Tennyson I NCE more the Heavenly Power And domes the red-plow'd hills With loving blue; The blackbirds have their wills, II Opens a door in Heaven; From skies of glass A Jacob's ladder falls On greening grass, And o'er the mountain-walls Young angels pass. III Before them fleets the shower, And burst the buds, And shine the level lands, And flash the floods; The stars are from their hands Flung thro' the woods, IV The woods with living airs Light airs from where the deep, Is breathing in his sleep, V O follow, leaping blood, O heart, look down and up, Serene, secure, Warm as the crocus cup, VI Past, Future glimpse and fade Thro' some slight spell, Some gleam from yonder vale, Some far blue fell, And sympathies, how frail, In sound and smell! VII Till at thy chuckled note, Thou twinkling bird, The fairy fancies range, And, lightly stirred, Ring little bells of change From word to word. VIII For now the Heavenly Power And thaws the cold, and fills Now rings the woodland loud and long, Now dance the lights on lawn and lea, On winding stream or distant sea; |