Ships in Harbour (Paperback)

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: TOURING /"7J.OD of Summer?I have seen World on world of summer green- Summer earth and summer sky, Fields of summer turning by; Hills beyond us fall away, Tumbled slopes in disarray, Fold and melt into a plain: Fire and gold of summer grain. Orchards curving on a hill, Heavy-fruited, green and still, Heave a shoulder to the sky, Bend and bow and hurry by; Fields of clover burn and pass, Cattle knee-deep in the grass Lift a lazy head and look Pictures in a picture-book. . . . Corn in swift, revolving rows, Dripping sunlight where it goes, Wheels and glitters and returns: Bladed beauty's lifted urns; Woods all shadowed, cooling earth, TOURING Murmuring of a quiet mirth, Pour damp odours where they pass, Breath of fern and earth and grass . Ramblers on a lichened wall, Ramblers, ramblers pouring all Colour that the world has known Out upon an aging stone.? Little towns of street and spire, Dooryard roses, heart's desire, Light a dream within the mind, Light a dream . . . and fall behind. God of mercies?when I slept, World on world of summer kept Turning, turning softly by,? Summer earth and summer sky: Fields of summer that will be Summer always unto me? Never lost, not left behind: Always summer for my mind. SUMMER TROM what lost centuries that were sweet before, Comes this long wave of Summer, bursting white In shivered apple-blossoms on the shore That is our homeland for a day and night! A wide, hushed spirit floats above the foam, A sweetness that was ancient flower and face, When wine-red poppies stained the walls of Rome, And daisies starred those summer fields of Thrace. Something survives and haunts the leafy shade, Some fragrance that was petals, once, and lips, And whispered, brief avowals that they made,? Borne hither, no...