Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING, by GIOVANNI BATTISTA GUARINI


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First Line: O spring, thou youthful beauty of the year
Last Line: And what I was no more, dear to another's eyes.
Subject(s): Spring


O SPRING, thou youthful beauty of the year,
Mother of flowers, bringer of warbling quires,
Of all sweet new green things and new desires,
Thou, Spring, returnest; but, alas! with thee
No more return to me
The calm and happy days these eyes were used to see.
Thou, thou returnest, thou,
But with these returns now
Nought else but dread remembrance of the pleasure
I took in my lost treasure.
Thou still, thou still, art the same blithe, sweet thing
Thou ever wast, O Spring;
But I, in whose weak orbs these tears arise,
And what I was no more, dear to another's eyes.





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