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
- At Algeciras; A Meditaton Upon Death by William Butler Yeats
- Elixer Vitæ poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- English Poetry. Thomas Aird. The Devil’s Dream on Mount Aksbeck. Томас Эрд.
- On A Plant Of Virgin’s-Bower, Designed To Cover A Garden-seat by William Cowper
- The Puzzled Game-Birds by Thomas Hardy
- To a person, they say, frigid, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: A celle que l’on fit froide by T. Wignesan
- Chi È? poem – Alfred Austin
- Иван Варавва – Мать Кубань
- Вера Звягинцева – Ты не снись мне
- Алексей Толстой – Рондо
- At Mass by Vachel Lindsay
- The Recruit poem – A. E. Housman
- Men Improve With The Years by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Wandering Willie: First Version
- Fortune-Hunter, The – Canto 5 by William Somervile
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).
