English Poetry. Charles Tennyson Turner. The Planet and the Tree. Чарльз Теннисон Тернер.

Charles Tennyson Turner (Чарльз Теннисон Тернер)

The Planet and the Tree

The evening breeze is blowing from the lea
Upon the fluttering elm; thou hast a mind,
O star! methinks, to settle in the tree--
But, ever baffled by the pettish wind,
Thou movest back and forward, and I find
A pastime for my thoughts in watching thee;
In thy vast orbit thou art rolling now,
And wottest not how to my human eye
Thou seemest flouted by a waving bough,
Serving my fancy's needs right pleasantly;
Thou wottest not--but He who made thee knows
Of all thy fair results both far and near,
Of all thine earthly, all thine heavenly shows--
The expression of thy beauty there and here.

Charles Tennyson Turner’s other poems:

1. Letty’s Globe
2. The Buoy-Bell
3. The Lattice at Sunrise
4. The Rookery
5. Her First-Born

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