I dreamed that, as I wandered by the way,
Bare Winter suddenly was changed to Spring,
And gentle odours led my steps astray,
Mixed with a sound of waters murmuring
Along a shelving bank of turf, which lay
Under a copse, and hardly dared to fling
Its green arms round the bosom of the stream,
But kissed it and then fled, as thou mightest in dream.
There grew pied wind-flowers and violets,
Daisies, those pearled Arcturi of the earth,
The constellated flower that never sets;
Faint oxlips; tender bluebells, at whose birth
The sod scarce heaved; and that tall flower that wets—
Like a child, half in tenderness and mirth—
Its mother’s face with Heaven’s collected tears,
When the low wind, its playmate’s voice, it hears.
And in the warm hedge grew lush eglantine,
Green cowbind and the moonlight-coloured may,
And cherry-blossoms, and white cups, whose wine
Was the bright dew, yet drained not by the day;
And wild roses, and ivy serpentine,
With its dark buds and leaves, wandering astray;
And flowers azure, black, and streaked with gold,
Fairer than any wakened eyes behold.
And nearer to the river’s trembling edge
There grew broad flag-flowers, purple pranked with white,
And starry river buds among the sedge,
And floating water-lilies, broad and bright,
Which lit the oak that overhung the hedge
With moonlight beams of their own watery light;
And bulrushes, and reeds of such deep green
As soothed the dazzled eye with sober sheen.
Methought that of these visionary flowers
I made a nosegay, bound in such a way
That the same hues, which in their natural bowers
Were mingled or opposed, the like array
Kept these imprisoned children of the Hours
Within my hand,—and then, elate and gay,
I hastened to the spot whence I had come,
That I might there present it!—Oh! to whom?
Mit diesen Zeilen eines außergewöhnlichen Poeten und einem Blumengruß aus dem Rosengarten meines geliebten Greenwich Parks wünsche ich Euch allen einen guten Start ins neue Jahr.
Categories: Gedichte
Vielen Dank für die wunderschönen Bilder und Dir auch ein frohes 2015!!!
Danke! Und auch Dir und Deiner Familie wünsche ich ein gutes neues Jahr ;-)
Danke, Peggy, ich wünsche dir und deiner Familie ein gutes, erfolgreiches und glückliches Jahr 2015! lg Susanne
Sehr schöner Beitrag, liebe Peggy – und auch dir ein glückliches Neues : )
Hallo Peggy, danke und für Dich ebenfalls alles Gute für 2015 :-) Liebe Grüße, Annette
Liebe Peggy, ich habe mir dieses Gedicht laut vorgelsen und die Worte sind wunderschön und ergreifend. Danke Dir vielmals dafür und weiterhin alles Gute im 2015.:)