Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A FORETASTE OF SPRING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE First Line: Sweet and golden afternoon Last Line: Night is nigh! Subject(s): Afternoon; Birds; Flowers; Laughter; Spring | ||||||||
SWEET and golden afternoon Of the infant summer, Joyous one! Merry trills of laughter soon Peep and tremble and embrace, Flee and turn again to race Through the sun; Morning, slow old nurse, is lost, Birds and souls and flowers are tost In the sunlit pentecost Winter's done! Birds are chirping melodies Made of clear notes vanishing In the sky! Yonder hum the yellow bees, Hither sway the tender branches, Mad young winds in avalanches Scurry by; All the flowers bloom a-blushing, Rapture through the soul is rushing, Suddenly there comes a hushing Night is nigh! | 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 A CHILD'S EVENING HYMN by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE |
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