Improvisations: Light And Snow: 14

"In the hot noon, in an old and savage garden,     The peach-tree grows. Its cruel and ugly roots     Rend and rifle the silent earth for moistur"

"My heart is an old house, and in that forlorn old house,     In the very centre, dark and forgotten,     Is a locked room where an enchanted pri"

"The first bell is silver,     And breathing darkness I think only of the long scythe of time.     The second bell is crimson,     And I think o"

"Many things perplex me and leave me troubled,     Many things are locked away in the white book of stars     Never to be opened by me.     The"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"