The Reaper
By John Banister Tabb
Tell me whither, maiden June,
Down the dusky slope of noon
With thy sickle of a moon,
Goest thou to reap.
Fields of Fancy by the stream
Of night in silvery silence gleam,
To heap with many a harvest-dream
The granary of Sleep.
Source Book
Poems
by John Banister Tabb
Copyright 1855
Published by Boston: Ticknor And Fields