At Bay Ridge, Long Island

Thomas Bailey Aldrich 1836 (Portsmouth) – 1907 (Boston)



Pleasant it is to lie amid the grass
Under these shady locusts, half the day,
Watching the ships reflected on the Bay,
Topmast and shroud, as in a wizard's glass;
To note the swift and meagre swallow pass,
Brushing the dewdrops from the lilac spray;
Or else to sit and while the noon away
With some old love-tale; or to muse, alas!
On Dante in his exile, sorrow-worn;
On Milton, blind, with inward-seeing eyes
That made their own deep midnight and rich morn;
To think that now, beneath Italian skies,
In such clear air as this, by Tiber's wave,
Daisies are trembling over Keats's grave.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 594
Words 107
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

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