Night of Spring and Summer
The even winds guard my sleep,
Long last in the garden I weep
For the last of the spring breeze,
Carrying the warm dews with unease.
The primroses bent and nod
In the first gust of summer hot,
Shatter over the moon-lit path
Of the fluid marble that hath
Melted and curved and lines entwined
Like a harp’s string unwind,
Swaying in the current to the tune
Of the soothing light of moon.
The music of the moon and night,
Bearing a distant woeful light,
Sends my dream far in exile
On a frosted star, or desolate isle,
Alone seeking the way home
While a dreamless sleep as my poem
May possess my disenchanted heart
That in the morning light may part.
Soon will come that newborn gleam,
The hours of a bracing, vibrant theme,
Yet shall the stillness of now linger on,
In the verge of night and coming of dawn,
My heart calls for the past,
The dreamless state ever-last.
Tis the majesty of sun that I dare dream,
In a bed of temporal void the seasons did seam.