Such hints as untaught Nature yields! The calm disorder of the sea, The straggling splendor of the fields, The wind’s gay incivility. O workman with your conscious plan, Compass and square are little worth; Copy (nay, only poets can) The artless masonry of earth. Go watch the windy spring’s carouse, And mark the winter wonders grow,— The graceful gracelessness of boughs, The careless carpentry of snow!
Rough pasture where the blackberries grow!— It bears upon its churlish face No sign of beauty, art, or grace; Not here the silvery coverts glow That April and the angler know. There sleeps no brooklet in this wild, Smooth-resting on its mosses sleek, Like loving lips upon a cheek Soft as...
Such hints as untaught Nature yields! The calm disorder of the sea, The straggling splendor of the fields, The wind’s gay incivility. O workman with your conscious plan, Compass and square are little worth; Copy (nay, only poets can) The artless masonry of earth. Go watch the windy...
