Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GO AWAY SPRING!, by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, how can you conceive beauty Last Line: This is no fit birthplace for beauty! Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
Spring, how can you conceive Beauty In sight of this dismal hut, Where children weep, Women are too stunned to complain, And men are too discouraged to work? Why push up white stars among the brittle weeds, And hang pink bubbles on the naked branches? Children can not eat dogwood blossoms! Poverty-stolid hearts can not stir At sight of sprouting redbud trees! Go away, Spring! You are not wanted here! Bread is needed, not verbena and wild hyacinths! Yoyr offspring does not know hunger. She can not become kindred To these ricket- and pellagra-stunted young ones, Born of Poverty and Hunger! They will not play with her ... Go away, Spring! This is no fit birthplace for Beauty! | 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 AT SUNRISE by ROSA ZAGNONI MARINONI |
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