Saturday, July 13, 2024

In Young July / Lucy Larcom



Txllxt TxllxT, Texel, Hoge Berg,
 Doolhof, July 2010. CC BY-SA 4.0
In Young July

from Thirty-five

The sun hangs calm at summer's poise;
    The earth lies bathed in shimmering noon,
At rest from all her cheerful noise,
    With heartstrings silently in tune.

The time, how beautiful and dear,
    When early fruits begin to blush,
And the full leafage of the year
    Sways o'er them with a sheltering hush!

The clouds that fleck the warm, blue deep
    Like shoals of tinted fishes float;
From breathless groves the birds asleep
    Send now and then a dreaming note.

~~
Lucy Larcom (1824-1893)
from Through the Year with the Poets: July, 1886

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

Lucy Larcom biography

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