Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, APRIL, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS


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First Line: O come across the hillside! The april month is here
Last Line: To reign there all the song-time, the child-time of the year.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): April; Primroses; Spring


O COME across the hillside! The April month is here,
The lamb-time, the lark-time, the child-time of the year.
The wren sings on the sallow,
The lark above the fallow,
The birds sing everywhere,
With whistle and with holloa
The labourers follow
The shining share,
And sing upon the hillside in the seed-time of the year.

O come into the hollow, for Eastertide is here,
And pale below the hillside the budding palms appear.
The silver buds a-blowing
Their yellow bloom are showing
To woo the bee;
The bee awhile yet drowses,
But the drunken moth carouses
All night upon the tree,
And dreams there in the dawning of the Spring-time of the year.

O come into the woodland! The primroses are here,
And down in the woodland beneath the grasses sere,
As in a wide dominion,
How many a pretty minion
Of Spring to-day,
Where warm the sunshine passes
Thro' the forest of the grasses,
Awakes to play,
To sport there in the sun-time, the play-time of the year.

O come across the hillside, for now the Spring is here,
Come child with your laughter, your pretty April cheer!
Your fantasy possesses
The airy wildernesses,
The shrill lark's dower,
The forest and the blossom,
The earth and in her bosom
The mouse's bower;
The sunlight and the starlight of the Spring-time of the year.

O come into the wide world! For you the Spring is here,
The blue heaven is smiling, the young earth carols clear.
Come happy heart to wonder,
Come eager hands to plunder
The wide world's store,
The meadow's golden glory,
The shining towers of story
On Dreamland's shore,
To reign there all the song-time, the child-time of the year.





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