Here is the soundless cypress on the lawn:
It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond
Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond
Stares. And you sing, you sing.
That star-enchanted song falls through the air
From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound,
Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground;
And all the night you sing.
My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee
As all night long I listen, and my brain
Receives your song, then loses it again
In moonlight on the lawn.
Now is your voice a marble high and white,
Then like a mist on fields of paradise,
Now is a raging fire, then is like ice,
Then breaks, and it is dawn.
The Nightingale Near The House
Harold Edward Monro
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Poem topics: fire, moon, star, voice, long, brain, ice, paradise, high, moonlight, sound, dawn, night, song, white, listen, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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