Clamorous cricket in the wall.
Thus chirping as night’s curtains fall,
I often think with wonder how such bare-boned,
tiny thing as thou.
In heated nooks within the mill
Can rasp thy song all night so shrill.
How oft at night I’ve sat alone
And heard thy sharppeculiar tone,
If as a tone I may define
That scraping, creaking chirp of thine
And listening while no other sound
Disturbed the loneliness around.
It fell upon my childish ears
As fairy whispers, ‘wakening fears
Till ghosts of every shape and size
Seemed flitting ‘fore my drowsy eyes.
But sitting, listening to thee now
With whiskered face and wrinkled brow,
I smile at childhood’s simple ways
Where strolled its goblins, ghosts and fays
And think—though some may think me wrong,
There’s music in a cricket’s song.
Sing, little, merry, cricket, sing;
Let thy elytracases* ring
Because thy rasping song invites
My memory back to summer nights
And fireside myths, when I, a boy.
Had felt no grief and lived in joy.
(*The tiny horny or shell likewings of insects)
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Омар Хайям – Если любишь, то стойко разлуку терпи
- The Frivolity of Dreaming by Mahi Chauhan
- Repeat That, Repeat poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Image Of Delight by William Ellery Leonard
- Владимир Маяковский – Раек (РОСТА №8)
- Virgule by Thomas Lux
- Christopher Okigbo – Looking Back at His Short-lived Life and Taking Stock of His Poetic Legacy
- Sonnet # 11 by Luis A. Estable
- Олег Бундур – И до моря 15 шагов
- The Hon. Sec. poem – John Betjeman poems
- Composed By The Side Of Grasmere Lake 1806 by William Wordsworth
- Olney Hymn 3: Jehovah-Rophi: I Am the Lord That Healeth Thee by William Cowper
- Такахама Кёси – Давнишний приятель
- Primacy Of Mind poem – Alfred Austin
- Ezra on the Strike poem – Ezra Pound poems
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).