Epigraph: 'Beneath each cloud is a silver lining.' (Longfellow)
Over the peaceful earth the early dawn
With tender tints breaks slowly, and the world
Again begins its toil with waking morn;
E'en as a stately ship with sails unfurled
Glides from the harbour to the seas' unrest.
Morning wears on to noontide, and the air
Is calm and still: the Sun God from his breast
Shoots down his scorching shafts on flowers fair
Till they begin to droop; but soon the sky
Is overshadowed and the mighty rain
Falls, and the thunders roar relentlessly,
But early dawn brings peacefulness again.
So after toil and trouble in this life
The "silver lining" calmly ends the strife.
First published in The Queenslander, 30 January 1892;
and later in:
A Sheaf of Sonnets by A. J. Rolfe, 1892
Note: this poem in the first in a sequence of poems that the author wrote about each month of the year. The rest of the poems will be reprinted by date, as they were first published.
Author: Little is known about this author. The collection of sonnets mentioned above is the author's only known book.
Author reference sites: Austlit
See also.
Over the peaceful earth the early dawn
With tender tints breaks slowly, and the world
Again begins its toil with waking morn;
E'en as a stately ship with sails unfurled
Glides from the harbour to the seas' unrest.
Morning wears on to noontide, and the air
Is calm and still: the Sun God from his breast
Shoots down his scorching shafts on flowers fair
Till they begin to droop; but soon the sky
Is overshadowed and the mighty rain
Falls, and the thunders roar relentlessly,
But early dawn brings peacefulness again.
So after toil and trouble in this life
The "silver lining" calmly ends the strife.
First published in The Queenslander, 30 January 1892;
and later in:
A Sheaf of Sonnets by A. J. Rolfe, 1892
Note: this poem in the first in a sequence of poems that the author wrote about each month of the year. The rest of the poems will be reprinted by date, as they were first published.
Author: Little is known about this author. The collection of sonnets mentioned above is the author's only known book.
Author reference sites: Austlit
See also.
