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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HEALING, by BESS HEATH OLMSTEAD
First Line: I thought I could not bear another spring
Last Line: Forget-me-nots may gather, and heart's-ease.
Subject(s): Flowers; Healing; Spring; Cures
First Line: I thought I could not bear another spring
Last Line: Forget-me-nots may gather, and heart's-ease.
Subject(s): Flowers; Healing; Spring; Cures
I thought I could not bear another spring
Without you here, ecstatically to share
The wonder of the first brave woodsy thing
Piercing the sodden leaves. I could not bear
The first hepatica, the curling fern,
The tender bloom that used to cheer and bless;
And the rapturous robin's carol of return
Only gave accent to my loneliness.
But oh -- today, quite suddenly I know
That it is spring out yonder where you dwell,
Where through bright meadows happily you go,
Eager to find the first white asphodel --
That you too, under lacy blossoming trees,
Forget-me-nots may gather, and heart's-ease.
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