Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BUDDING-TIME TOO BRIEF, by EVALEEN STEIN Poet's Biography First Line: O little buds, break not so fast! Last Line: Wait yet awhile! Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
O LITTLE buds, break not so fast! The spring 's but new. The skies will yet be brighter blue, And sunny too. I would you might thus sweetly last Till this glad season 's overpast, Nor hasten through. It is so exquisite to feel The light warm sun; To merely know the winter done, And life begun; And to my heart no blooms appeal For tenderness so deep and real, As any one Of these first April buds, that hold The hint of spring's Rare perfectness that May-time brings. So take not wings! Oh, linger, linger, nor unfold Too swiftly though the mellow mould, Sweet growing things! And errant birds, and honey-bees, Seek not to wile; And, sun, let not your warmest smile Quite yet beguile The young peach-boughs and apple-trees To trust their beauty to the breeze; Wait yet awhile! | 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 |
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