Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN THE GOLDEN BIRCH, by JANE ELIZABETH GOSTWYCKE ROBERTS First Line: How the leaves sing to the wind! Last Line: And the hill-tops own its might! Subject(s): Birch Trees | ||||||||
How the leaves sing to the wind! And the wind with its turbulent voices sweet Gives back the praise of the leaves, as is meet, To the soft blue sky, where the cumulous clouds are thinned, And driven away, like a flock of frightened sheep, By the wind that waketh and putteth to sleep. Here, in the golden birch, Folded in rapture of golden light, I taste the joy of the birds in their flight; And I watch the flickering shadows, that sway and lurch And flutter, like dancing brownies, over the green, And the birch is singing wherein I lean. From over the purple hills Comes the wind with its strange sweet song to the land; And the earth looks bright, as it might when planned By the Maker, and left unblemished of human ills; And the river runs, like a child to its mother's knee, To the heart of the great unresting sea. How perfect the day, and sweet! Over me, limitless heavens of blue; Close to me, leaves that the wind sifts through; And the one sweet song, that the wind and the leaves repeat, Till the mild, hushed meadows listen, crowned with light, And the hill-tops own its might! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE YOUNG BIRCH by ROBERT FROST THE TURNING OF THE LEAVES by VERNON WATKINS TO A BIRCH TREE by KENNETH SLADE ALLING WHITE BIRCHES by MARY BRADLEY BRAMHALL THESMOPHORIAZUSAE: WOMEN'S CHORUS by ARISTOPHANES FORBIDDEN FRUIT: 2 by EMILY DICKINSON BITTER-SWEET: CRADLE SONG [OR, BABYHOOD] by JOSIAH GILBERT HOLLAND |
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