Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THOUGHTS CONNECTED WITH TREES (1), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trees, gracious trees! - how rich a gift Last Line: And a lost mother's eye gives back its holy light. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Spring; Trees | ||||||||
TREES, gracious trees! -- how rich a gift ye are, Crown of the earth! to human hearts and eyes! How doth the thought of home, in lands afar, Linked with your forms and kindly whisperings rise! How the whole picture of a childhood lies Oft 'midst your boughs forgotten, buried deep! Till, gazing through them up the summer skies, As hushed we stand, a breeze perchance may creep, And old, sweet leaf-sounds reach the inner world Where memory coils -- and lo! at once unfurled, The past, a glowing scroll, before our sight Spreads clear; while, gushing from their long-sealed urn, Young thoughts, pure dreams, undoubting prayers return, And a lost mother's eye gives back its holy light. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING TREES by ROBERT HASS THE GREEN CHRIST by ANDREW HUDGINS MIDNIGHT EDEN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN REFLECTION OF THE WOOD by LEONIE ADAMS THE LIFE OF TREES by DORIANNE LAUX A DIRGE (1) by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS |
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