Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE RETURN OF SPRING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: Have I passed through death's unconscious birth Last Line: To the dawning light of love? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Holidays; Spring; Trees | ||||||||
HAVE I passed through Death's unconscious birth, In a dream the midnight bare? I look on another and fairer Earth: I breathe a wondrous air! A spirit of beauty walks the hills, A spirit of love the plain; The shadows are bright, and the sunshine fills The air with a diamond rain! Before my vision the glories swim, To the dance of a tune unheard: Is an angel singing where woods are dim, Or is it an amorous bird? Is it a spike of azure flowers, Deep in the meadows seen, Or is it the peacock's neck, that towers Out of the spangled green? Is a white dove glancing across the blue, Or an opal taking wing? For my soul is dazzled through and through, With the splendor of the Spring. Is it she that shines, as never before, The tremulous hills above, -- Or the heart within me, awake once more To the dawning light of love? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING TREES by ROBERT HASS THE GREEN CHRIST by ANDREW HUDGINS MIDNIGHT EDEN by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN REFLECTION OF THE WOOD by LEONIE ADAMS THE LIFE OF TREES by DORIANNE LAUX BEDOUIN [LOVE] SONG by BAYARD TAYLOR NATIONAL ODE; INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA by BAYARD TAYLOR |
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