Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EARLY SPRING, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO



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EARLY SPRING, by                    
First Line: There is a faint, delicious sense
Last Line: The summer of the heart.
Subject(s): Spring


There is a faint, delicious sense
Of blossoms yet unborn,
An odor rare, of fresh dug earth,
In the sweet air of morn.

The dim blue of the hazy sky
Is flecked with cloud-land's spars;
The foam-capped surges glint and gleam
Beneath the sunlight's bars.

Upon the breezes of the woods
The violet's breath is flung,
And through the mingled light and rain
A silvery mist is hung.

I watched the robin flitting by;
And long he sat and sang
Of days just coming, where the spring's
Green, tender tassels hang.

I saw a twittering sparrow sit
Upon a mossy rail,
While, now and then, he eyed askance
A silvery-coated snail.

The woodbine tiny leaflets wears,
And round about its roots,
Their slender arms adrip with rain,
Are little pale-green shoots.

The jonquil and the hyacinth,—
They blossomed long ago;
And now the breezes bend their cups,
And toss them to and fro.

I listen to the hum of bees
And to the laughing stream,
And elfin voices seem to call
From out my idle dream.

Ah, now the future spreads before
Life some bright fairy chart,
For summer days are coming back —
The summer of the heart.





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