Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO SPRING; SONNET, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poet's Biography First Line: O ver purpureum!' -- violet-colored spring! Last Line: Her brightest purple on our lips and noses! Subject(s): Purple (color); Spring | ||||||||
"O VER PURPUREUM!" -- Violet-colored Spring Perhaps, good poet, in your vernal days The simple truth might justify the phrase; But now, dear Virgil, there is no such thing! Perhaps, indeed, in your Italian clime, Where o'er the year, if fair report be true, Four seasons roll, instead of barely two, There still may be a verdant vernal time; But here, on these our chilly northern shores, Where April gleams with January's snows, -- Not e'en a violet buds; and nothing "blows," Save blustering Boreas, -- dreariest of bores. O ver purpureum? where the Spring discloses Her brightest purple on our lips and noses! | 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 DEATH AND CUPID; AN ALLEGORY by JOHN GODFREY SAXE |
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