Richard Watson Dixon (1833-1900). The opening of Ode on Departing Youth. Robert Bridges, ed. 1916. The Spirit of Man: An Anthology

Robert Bridges, ed. (1844–1930). The Spirit of Man: An Anthology. 1916.

The opening of Ode on Departing Youth

Richard Watson Dixon (1833–1900)


HIS 1 icicle upon the frozen bough
Stern Winter hangs, where hung the leaf ere now:
In soft diffusion doth the morning creep
Along the clouded heaven from mound to mound,
So faint and wan, the woods are still asleep,	5
And pallid shadows scarcely mark the ground …

Note 1. Dixon. The opening of Ode on Departing Youth. ‘Hist. Odes’, p. 108. [back]