New-Year's Eve

Sydney Thompson Dobell 1824 (Kent) – 1874



As when at twelve o'clock
Strong January opes the gates of Life
And we that were so cabined and so dark
Within the round tower of the rounded year
Feel the far Spring blown in on us and look
Straight to the primroses, and with the swallow
Skim thro' the dawns of daffodils and up
To bluebell skies, and from the bluebell skies,
Like a wild hawk upon a flight of doves,
Swoop upon June and Paradise, and on
Beyond the bounds of Eden to an Earth
Boss'd with great purples of new-clustered wine
Betwixt the tented harvests red and gold,
And so into a cloud, and know no more--

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJKLMN
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 568
Words 112
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 14

Sydney Thompson Dobell

Sydney Thompson Dobell, English poet and critic, was born at Cranbrook, Kent. more…

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