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The City of Dreadful Night, and Other Poems; A Selection From the Works of J. Thomson
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems A Selection From the Works of J Thomson Author:James Thomson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: HE HEARD HER SING We were now in the midmost Maytime, in the full green flood of the Spring, When the air is sweet all the daytime with the blossoms and birds that sing ; When the air is rich all the night, and richest of all in its noon When the nightingales pant the delight and keen stress of their love to the moon ; When the almond and apple and pear spread wavering wavelets of snow In the light of the soft warm air far-flushed with a delicate glow ; When the towering chestnuts uphold their masses of spires red or white, And the pendulous tresses of gold of the slim laburnum burn bright, And the lilac guardeth the bowers with the gleam of a lifted spear, And the scent of the hawthorn flowers breathes all the new life of the year, And the linden's tender pink bud by the green of the leaf is o'errun, And the bronze-beech shines like blood in the light of the morning sun, And the leaf-buds seem spangling some network of gossamer flung on the elm, And the hedges are filling their fretwork with every sweet green of Spring's realm ; And the flowers are everywhere budding and blowing about our feet, The green of the meadows star-studding and the bright green blades of the wheat. An evening and night of song. For first when I left the town, And took the lane that is long and came out on the breeze-swept down, The sunset heavens were all ringing wide over the golden gorse With the skylarks' rapturous singing, a revel of larks in full force, A revel of larks in the raptures surpassing all raptures of Man, Who ponders the blessings he captures and finds in each blessing some ban. And t...« less