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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONNET, by JOHANN SIGURJONSSON Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring has departed: early days' sweet scent
Last Line: With suppliant hands, thy shining rays I seize.
Subject(s): Life
First Line: Spring has departed: early days' sweet scent
Last Line: With suppliant hands, thy shining rays I seize.
Subject(s): Life
SPRING has departed; early days' sweet scent
Has changed to summer's sultry pungency;
Our youth has gone, no dream-flecked galaxy
Decks the gray fields of days that are unspent.
We're born upon a headland bare and rent
By the dim-beaconed sea, Eternity!
With sweat and blood -- such is man's history!
We've bought some shells, and lo, our lives are spent!
And yet I've ne'er loved more the day's dear sight.
-- "Eternity" the lips of infants bear --
Before thee, Life, I bow on bended knees;
E'en as a shaded flow'ret looks for light
-- The stalk can scarcely its own weight upbear --
With suppliant hands, thy shining rays I seize.
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