Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN APRIL DAY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: The lark sung loud; the music at his heart Last Line: Each change, and, like a tide, the distance comes and goes! Subject(s): April | ||||||||
The lark sung loud; the music at his heart Had called him early; upward straight he went, And bore in nature's quire the merriest part, As to the lake's broad shore my steps I bent; The waterflies with glancing motion drove Their dimpling eddies in among the blooms Shed by the flowering poplars from above; While, overhead, the rooks, on sable plumes, Floated and dipt about the gleaming haze Of April, crost anon by April glooms, As is the fashion of her changeful days; When, what the rain-cloud blots, the sun relumes O' the instant, and the shifting landscape shows Each change, and, like a tide, the distance comes and goes! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR CITY SPRING by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ESSAY ON STONE by HAYDEN CARRUTH APRIL NOT AN INVENTORY BUT A BLIZZARD by ALICE NOTLEY APRIL ONE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER APRIL by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS MEMORY OF APRIL by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS APRIL MORTALITY by LEONIE ADAMS HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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