Arts & Sciences

A Poet of One Mood

by Alice Meynell 1847–1922

From Poems (1921)

Arts & Sciences

A poet of one mood in all my lays,
Ranging all life to sing one only love,
Like a west wind across the world I move,
Sweeping my harp of floods mine own wild ways.

The countries change, but not the west-wind days
Which are my songs. My soft skies shine above,
And on all seas the colours of a dove,
And on all fields a flash of silver greys.

I make the whole world answer to my art
And sweet monotonous meanings. In your ears
I change not ever, bearing, for my part,
One thought that is the treasure of my years,
A small cloud full of rain upon my heart
And in mine arms, clasped, like a child in tears.

MLA

Meynell, Alice. “A Poet of One Mood.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/meynell/29/.

Chicago

Meynell, Alice. “A Poet of One Mood.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/meynell/29/.

Read this poem with the Codex →

More by Alice Meynell