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Lily121
Junior Member

since 2000-05-23

Posts 24

0 posted 2000-05-24 09:04 PM

This one was inspired by A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Shakespeare.

Rhyme of the Countryside

Sunrise, day is new
over hills and dales,
briers and pales,
overhung with sweet scented bowers,
and overgrown with oxlips and foxglove, tall, swaying towers,
through ivy, thick and green,
and grass, with a glimmering sheen,
sunlight spill in daylight hour.

Quiet day over foamy spray
water softly gurgles in
month of May.
Birds sweetly sing and
wind gently whispers in quiet daylight hour.

Insects hum fearies to sleep
come moonrise they up and play
with small summer bells and tinkling harp
they sing their fearie queen to sleep.
Sleep, Faerie Mother, rest on flow'ry bed,
sleep, Titania, sleep, for in gentle summer dreams your Oberon comes.

Hope you like it.

netswan
Senior Member

since 2000-03-28

Posts 1369
Washington

1 posted 2000-05-24 10:18 PM

Lily - this is simply lovely -
Oh, how I wish there had been the internet
when I was young and a Passions forum,
so I could share 'em --)

But have never seen oxlips. It stumped
me for awhile in the beautiful garden
you portrayed as I pictured this big OX
with LIPS

~netswan

Lily121
Junior Member

since 2000-05-23

Posts 24

2 posted 2000-05-25 04:06 PM

Well, oxlips grow in England. I've never seen them either, I got the name from A Midsummer Night's Dream.

brian madden
Member Elite

since 2000-05-06

Posts 4374
ireland

3 posted 2000-05-25 04:38 PM

Oh newswan, an ox with lips oh scary thought.

anyway, lily a lovely poem, I think you should submit this in the poetry challenge forum for Isis's new challenge about favourite nature spots. A wonderful poem, I could just picture myself strolling
"over hills and dales,
briers and pales,
overhung with sweet scented bowers,
and overgrown with oxlips and foxglove, tall, swaying towers,
through ivy, thick and green,
and grass, with a glimmering sheen,
sunlight spill in daylight hour".

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