Poems Author:Leonard Cline Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A DAY IN ARCADY One time when weary work was done, I lay In twilight shadows, resting after day; It seemed I soared a wood, and sailed a sea, And wandered in ... more »the fields of Arcady. Dawn. With the first paling of the eastern dark, A wood-bird at his matinal; and hark! A thousand voices thrill the clear refrain In untaught harmony—then still again They leave the woods. The cascade's gentle call Lures softly in the silences; and tall And grim and warder-like, the oak trees raise Their massive arms to heaven, until the maze Of interlacing limbs is lost among The rifted night-clouds. Now the light outflung Before the golden-glowing god of day Across the distant hills, is spreading gray Upon the towers of night. The winds from play Have ceased. A quiet settles, like the hymn's Low cadence leaves, when tremulous it dims And wavers unto death within the nave Of lofty, Gothic, arched vaults. And save For your heart's gentle pulsing, this might be A world death-marked with mute serenity. Ah, look! how from the lake a mist is breathed, That lies so quietly with shadows wreathed. Not long ago, within this quiet pool We marked a lily, like a jet-bound jewel; And now wan in the mist the flower lies Like its star-sisters in the whitening skies. The gray has turned to fairest blue, dear love! The blue to lavender and pink and gold And flaming scarlet in the east above The purple hills. And one by one unfold Their sails gay vagrant clouds that float along Like ships upon a turquoise sea. The song Of glad rejoicing breaks again in free Ecstatic joy, from soaring birds that see The life-god ere his tremulous first gleams Come glinting through the trees, and with quick sparks Of diamond fire, as bri...« less