Poem by Aldous Huxley

Inspiration

Noonday upon the Alpine meadows
Pours its avalanche of Light
And blazing flowers: the very shadows
Translucent are and bright.
It seems a glory that nought surpasses--
Passion of angels in form and hue--
When, lo! from the jewelled heaven of the grasses
Leaps a lightning of sudden blue.
Dimming the sun-drunk petals,
Bright even unto pain,
The grasshopper flashes, settles,
And then is quenched again.

1. Out of the Window
2. Summer Stillness
3. Song of Poplars
4. The Elms
5. The Reef

Ella Wilcox Inspiration ("Not like a daring, bold, aggressive boy")

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