Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN GREEN WAYS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poet's Biography First Line: Now the time has come to sing Last Line: You shall sing a song to me! Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
(1) Now the time has come to sing In the service of the Spring, I will lift a note, and call Bird and beast to madrigal. But o'er vale and mountain-shelf, In the wood, the plain, the glade, Spring is singing for herself, Singing without any aid! You can do without my aid! So I need not sing for you! Singing is my only trade! What the deuce am I to do! (2) Among the leaves I'll make a rhyme, To the winter in its pall, For the poor forgotten time Has not had a song at all. Winter! Winter! Do not fear! You shall wear an icy crown At the falling of the year When the leaves are tumbled down! I am singing to you here, Where the buds breaks on the tree! At the falling of the year You shall sing a song to me! | 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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