Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEW SPRING: 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me who first taught clocks to chime Last Line: The sun was laughing, the birds were singing. Subject(s): Kisses; May (month); Spring | ||||||||
TELL me who first taught clocks to chime, Made minutes, hours, divisions of time? It was a cold and sorrowful elf; He sat in the winter-night, wrapp'd in himself, And counted the mouse's squeakings mysterious, And the wood-worm's regular tick so serious. Tell me who first did kisses suggest? It was a mouth all glowing and blest; It kiss'd and it thought of nothing beside. The fair month of May was then in its pride, The flowers were all from the earth fast springing, The sun was laughing, the birds were singing. | 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 |
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