Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRINGTIDE, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN


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First Line: The silver birch, with pure-green flickering leaves
Last Line: With that exultant joy whose name is spring.
Subject(s): Spring


THE silver birch, with pure-green flickering leaves,
Flooded by morn with golden light, rejoices,
And mingles with the kindred merriment
Of perfume-laden winds and happy voices:
No child of spring is lonely, but receives
Some subtle charm, by diverse beauty lent,
And with another life its own inweaves;
E'en man's creative eyes win all their gain
From light, whose glory, but for him, were vain.
While bud the flowers, while May-tide sunshine beams,
Through all the world of mind and body streams
One constant rapture of melodious thought,
One fragrant joy, with summer promise fraught,
And one eternal love illumes the whole;
For odour, light, and sound are truthful dreams,
Inspired by Nature in the human soul.
This fresh young life, whereof my own is part,
With boundless hope all earth and heaven fills;
The birds are waking music in my heart,
A voiceless chant, more sweet than they can sing;
My thoughts are sunbeams; all my being thrills
With that exultant joy whose name is Spring.






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