Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904. | | | | Poems of Sentiment: II. Life | | At Midsummer | | Louise Chandler Moulton (1835–1908) |
| | | THE SPACIOUS Noon enfolds me with its peace— | |
| The affluent Midsummer wraps me round— | |
| So still the earth and air, that scarce a sound | |
| Affronts the silence, and the swift caprice | |
| Of one stray bird’s lone call does but increase | 5 |
| The sense of some compelling hush profound, | |
| Some spell by which the whole vast world is bound, | |
| Till star-crowned Night smile downward its release. | |
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| I sit and dream—midway of the long day— | |
| Midway of the glad year—midway of life— | 10 |
| My whole world seems, indeed, to hold its breath:— | |
| For me the sun stands still upon his way— | |
| The winds for one short hour remit their strife— | |
| Then Day, and Year, and Life whirl on toward Death. | | | | |
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