Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WISTFUL DAYS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poet's Biography First Line: What is there wanting in the spring? Last Line: We have not truly known the spring. Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
WHAT is there wanting in the Spring? The air is soft as yesteryear; The happy-nested green is here, And half the world is on the wing. The morning beckons, and like balm Are westward waters blue and calm. Yet something's wanting in the Spring. What is it wanting in the Spring? O April, lover to us all, What is so poignant in thy thrall When children's merry voices ring? What haunts us in the cooing dove More subtle than the speech of Love, What nameless lack or loss of Spring? Let Youth go dally with the Spring, Call her the dear, the fair, the young; And all her graces ever sung Let him, once more rehearsing, sing. They know, who keep a broken tryst, Till something from the Spring be missed We have not truly known the Spring. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD AN ENGLISH MOTHER by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON |
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