Summer Past
To Oscar Wilde There was the summer. There Warm hours of leaf-lipped song, And dripping amber sweat. O sweet to see The great trees condescend to cast a pearl Down to the myrtles; and the proud leaves curl In ecstasy Fruit of a quest, despair. Smart of a sullen wrong. Where may they hide them yet? One hour, yet one, To find the mossgod lurking in his nest, To see the naiads' floating hair, caressed By fragrant sun- Beams. Softly lulled the eves The song-tired birds to sleep, That other things might tell Their secrecies. The beetle humming neath the fallen leaves Deep in what hollow do the stern gods keep Their bitter silence? By what listening well Where holy trees, Song-set, unfurl eternally the sheen Of restless green?
Credit
This poem is in the public domain.
Date Published
01/01/1893