There Is a Morn by Men Unseen
poem 24
There Is a Morn by Men Unseen - meaning Summary
Secret Morning of Celebration
The poem imagines a hidden, celestial morning where immortal maidens keep an eternal May, dancing and playing on a remote green beyond human sight. The speaker watches that serene, otherworldly revel with wonder and longing, comparing it to stars swinging cups of chrysolite. The final stanzas express desire to join or be called to that different dawn, a mystical yearning for participation in an inaccessible, joyous realm.
Read Complete AnalysesThere is a morn by men unseen Whose maids upon remoter green Keep their Seraphic May And all day long, with dance and game, And gambol I may never name Employ their holiday. Here to light measure, move the feet Which walk no more the village street Nor by the wood are found Here are the birds that sought the sun When last year’s distaff idle hung And summer’s brows were bound. Ne’er saw I such a wondrous scene Ne’er such a ring on such a green Nor so serene array As if the stars some summer night Should swing their cups of Chrysolite And revel till the day Like thee to dance like thee to sing People upon the mystic green I ask, each new May Morn. I wait thy far, fantastic bells Unto the different dawn!
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