155
FROM “DOVER BEACH”
The
sea is calm to-night,
The tide is full, the
moon lies fair
Upon the straits; - on the French coast, the
light
Gleams, and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come
to the window, sweet is the night air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the ebb meets the moon – blanch’d sand,
Listen!
You hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and flying,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
By Matthew Arnold
NOVEMBER
No sun – no moon,
No morn – no noon
No down, no dusk – no proper time of day
No sky – no early view -
No distance looking blue –
No road – no street – no “t’other side the way”
No end to any Row.
No indications where the Crescents go –
No top to any steeple
No recognition of familiar people.
No warmth – no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable
feel in any member
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds. November!
By Thomas Hood
156
FROM A RAILWAY CARRIAGE
Faster than fairies, faster than witches,
Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;
And charging along like
troops in a battle,
All through the meadow the horses and cattle.
All of the sights of the hill and the plain
Fly as
thick as driving rain;
And ever again, in the wink of an eye,
Painted stations whistle by.
Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,
All by himself
and gathering brambles;
Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;
And there’s the green for stringing the daisies!
Here is a cart run away in the road
Lumping along with man and load;
And here is a mill, and there is a river,
Each a glimpse and gone for ever.
By Robert L.Stevenson
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