Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUMMER (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI



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First Line: Winter is cold-hearted, / spring is yea and nay
Last Line: That days drone elsewehere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Country Life; Summer


Winter is cold-hearted,
Spring is yea and nay,
Autumn is a weathercock
Blown every way.
Summer days for me
When every leaf is on its tree;

When Robin's not a beggar
And Jenny Wren's a bride,
And larks hang singing, singing, singing,
Over the wheat-fields wide,
And anchored lilies ride,
And the pendulum spider
Swings from side to side;

And blue-black beetles transact business,
And gnats fly in a host,
And furry caterpillars hasten
That no time be lost,
And moths grow fat and thrive,
And ladybirds arrive.

Before green apples blush,
Before green nuts embrown,
Why one day in the country
Is worth a month in town;
Is worth a day and a year
Of the dusty, musty, lag-last fashion
That days drone elsewehere.




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