TATI’s & TONY’s DEAD POET TOUR // A Seed by William Allingham

See how a Seed, which Autumn flung down,
And through the Winter neglected lay,
Uncoils two little green leaves and two brown,
With tiny root taking hold on the clay
As, lifting and strengthening day by day,
It pushes red branches, sprouts new leaves,
And cell after cell the Power in it weaves
Out of the storehouse of soil and clime,
To fashion a Tree in due course of time;
Tree with rough bark and boughs’ expansion,
Where the Crow can build his mansion,
Or a Man, in some new May,
Lie under whispering leaves and say,
“Are the ills of one’s life so very bad
When a Green Tree makes me deliciously glad?”
As I do now. But where shall I be
When this little Seed is a tall green Tree?

by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM (1824-1889)
Public Domain Poetry

13 thoughts on “TATI’s & TONY’s DEAD POET TOUR // A Seed by William Allingham”

  4. To lean back ‘gainst sturdy leafy tree now / And upwards in awe-filled wonder glance …/ To hear that crack, see a’tumbling bough… / ‘Tis little wonder I filled my underpants. (Sorry T and T and Allingham, I see a poem about trees and that anti Joyce Kilmer bias kicks in.)

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