Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING HYMN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography First Line: How pleasant is the opening year! Last Line: Must reap the harvest time hath sown. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Flowers; Harvest; Seasons; Spring | ||||||||
I. How pleasant is the opening year! The clouds of Winter melt away; The flowers in beauty reappear; The songster carols from the spray; Lengthens the more refulgent day; And bluer glows the arching sky; All things around us seem to say "Christian! direct thy thoughts on high." II. In darkness, through the dreary length Of Winter slept both bud and bloom; But Nature now puts forth her strength, And starts renew'd, as from the tomb; Behold an emblem of thy doom, O man!a star hath shone to save And morning yet shall re-illume The midnight darkness of the grave! III. Yet ponder well, how then shall break The dawn of second life on thee Shalt thou to hopeto bliss awake? Or vainly strive God's wrath to flee? Then shall pass forth the dread decree, That makes or weal or woe thine own: Up, and to work! Eternity Must reap the harvest Time hath sown. | 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 THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR |
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