John Shaw Neilson Green Poems
- 1. The Orange Tree
The young girl stood beside me.
I Saw not what her young eyes could see:
- A light, she said, not of the sky
Lives somewhere in the Orange Tree.
... - 2. The Green Singer
ALL singers have shadows
That follow like fears,
But I know a singer
Who never saw tears;
... - 3. The Poor Can Feed The Birds
Ragged, unheeded, stooping, meanly shod,
The poor pass to the pond: not far away
The spires go up to God.
... - 4. The Land Where I Was Born
HAVE you ever been down to my countree
Where the trees are green and tall?
The days are long and the heavens are high,
But the people there are small.
... - 5. The Poor, Poor Country
Oh 'twas a poor country, in Autumn it was bare,
The only green was the cutting grass and the sheep found little there.
Oh, the thin wheat and the brown oats were never two foot high,
But down in the poor country no pauper was I.
... - 6. In The Dim Counties
In the dim counties
we take the long calm
Lilting no haziness,
sequel or psalm.
... - 7. The Loving Tree
Three women walked upon a road,
And the first said airily,
â??Of all the trees in all the world
Which is the loving tree?â?
... - 8. You And Yellow Air
YOU, AND YELLOW AIR by John Shaw Neilson
I dream of an old kissing-time
And the flowered follies there;
In the dim place of cherry-trees,
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