The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume I by Emma Lazarus

Author:Emma Lazarus
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2015-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

IV. FANCIES.

The ceaseless whirr of crickets fills the ear

From underneath each hedge and bush and tree,

Deep in the dew-drenched grasses everywhere.

The simple sound dispels the fantasy

Of gloom and terror gathering round the mind.

It seems a pleasant thing to breathe, to be,

To hear the many-voiced, soft summer wind

Lisp through the dark thick leafage overhead—

To see the rosy half-moon soar behind

The black slim-branching elms. Sad thoughts have fled,

Trouble and doubt, and now strange reveries

And odd caprices fill us in their stead.

From yonder broken disk the redness dies,

Like gold fruit through the leaves the half-sphere gleams,

Then over the hoar tree-tops climbs the skies,

Blanched ever more and more, until it beams

Whiter than crystal. Like a scroll unfurled,

And shadowy as a landscape seen in dreams,

Reveals itself the sleeping, quiet world,

Painted in tender grays and whites subdued—

The speckled stream with flakes of light impearled,

The wide, soft meadow and the massive wood.

Naught is too wild for our credulity

In this weird hour: our finest dreams hold good.

Quaint elves and frolic flower-sprites we see,

And fairies weaving rings of gossamer,

And angels floating through the filmy air.

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