Tuesday, April 21, 2009

The Meadows in Spring

The Meadows in Spring
Edward Fitzgerald
'Tis a dull sight
To see the year dying,
When winter winds
Set the yellow wood sighing:
Sighing, oh! sighing.
When such a time cometh,
I do retire
Into and old room
Beside a bright fire:
Oh, pile a bright fire!
And there I sit
Reading old things,
Of knights and lorn damsels,
While the wind sings—
Oh, drearily sings!
I never look out
Nor attend to the blast;
For all to be seen
Is the leaves falling fast:
Falling, falling!
But close at the hearth,
Like a cricket, sit I,
Reading of summer
And chivalry—
Gallant chivalry!
Then with an old friend
I talk of our youth!
How 'twas gladsome, but often
Foolish, forsooth:
But gladsome, gladsome!
Or to get merry
We sing some old rhyme,
That made the wood ring again
In summertime—
Sweet summertime!
And sometimes a tear
Will rise in each eye,
Seeing the two old friends
So merrily— So merrily!
Thus, then, live I,
Till, 'mid all the gloom,
By heaven! the bold sun
Is with me in the room
Shining, shining!
Then the clouds part,
Swallow soaring between;
The spring is alive,
And the meadows are green!
I jump up, like mad,
Break the old pipe in twain,
And away to the meadows,
The meadows again!

2 comments:

Cora Beth said...

What a neat poem! Did you write it? I love Spring--even with its difficulties...

*~Virginia~* said...

no way! I don't think I could ever write anything that pretty!!!! My extent of poetry ends with "the cat sat on the mat" hahahahahaha. Its by Eward Fitzgerald, I found it in a book of poetry I used to read a lot when I was younger! :)