EBOOK LYRICS OF EARTH ***
Produced by Andrew Sly.
Thank you to Canadian Poetry [http://www.canadianpoetry.ca] for
providing the source text.
Lyrics of Earth
By Archibald Lampman
First published in Boston by Copeland and Day, 1895.
To my Mother
Mother, to whose valiant will
Battling long ago,
What the heaping years fulfil,
Light and song, I owe;
Send my little book afield,
Fronting praise or blame
With the shining flag and shield
Of your name.
CONTENTS
The Sweetness of Life
God-Speed to the Snow
April in the Hills
Forest Moods
The Return of the Year
Favorites of Pan
The Meadow
In May
Life and Nature
With the Night
June
Distance
The Bird and the Hour
After Rain
Cloud-Break
The Moon-Path
Comfort of the Fields
At the Ferry
September
A Re-assurance
The Poet's Possession
An Autumn Landscape
In November
By an Autumn Stream
Snowbirds
Snow
Sunset
Winter-Store
The Sun Cup
THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE
It fell on a day I was happy,
And the winds, the concave sky,
The flowers and the beasts in the meadow
Seemed happy even as I;
And I stretched my hands to the meadow,
To the bird, the beast, the tree:
"Why are ye all so happy?"
I cried, and they answered me.
What sayest thou, Oh meadow,
That stretchest so wide, so far,
That none can say how many
Thy misty marguerites are?
And what say ye, red roses,
That o'er the sun-blanched wall
From your high black-shadowed trellis
Like flame or blood-drops fall?
"We are born, we are reared, and we linger
A various space and die;
We dream, and are bright and happy,
But we cannot answer why.
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