Jim, by isolating that stanza of "At Grass" you've made me notice something. The inversion that places "come" at the end of the last line is part of a pattern of verb phrases at the ends of lines and clauses--not every verb, no, but most of them in the stanza:
Have slipped their names, and stand at ease,
Or gallop for what must be joy,
And not a fieldglass sees them home,
Or curious stop-watch prophesies:
Only the groom, and the groom's boy,
With bridles in the evening come.
I think that's part of the reason we feel it as right when it arrives.
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