Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | I. Nature’s Influence | | “Come to these scenes of peace” | | William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850) |
| | | COME to these scenes of peace, | |
| Where, to rivers murmuring, | |
| The sweet birds all the summer sing, | |
| Where cares and toil and sadness cease! | |
| Stranger, does thy heart deplore | 5 |
| Friends whom thou wilt see no more? | |
| Does thy wounded spirit prove | |
| Pangs of hopeless, severed love? | |
| Thee the stream that gushes clear, | |
| Thee the birds that carol near | 10 |
| Shall soothe, as silent thou dost lie | |
| And dream of their wild lullaby; | |
| Come to bless these scenes of peace, | |
| Where cares and toil and sadness cease. | | | | |
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