IF I might see another Spring, I'd not plant summer flowers and wait: I'd have my crocuses at once, My leafless pink mezereons, My chill-veined snowdrops, choicer yet My white or azure violet, Leaf-nested primrose; anything To blow at once, not late. If I might see another Spring, I'd listen to the daylight birds That build their nests and pair and sing, Nor wait for mateless nightingale; I'd listen to the lusty herds, The ewes with lambs as white as snow, I'd find out music in the hail And all the winds that blow. If I might see another Spring -- Oh stinging comment on my past That all my past results in 'if' -- If I might see another Spring I'd laugh to-day, to-day is brief; I would not wait for anything: I'd use to-day that cannot last, Be glad to-day and sing. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TAM I' THE KIRK by VIOLET JACOB FOOTLIGHT MOTIFS: 3. GABY DESLYS by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 1 by MARK AKENSIDE THE SOLITUDE OF SPACE by FLORA CECILE ALLISON PEACE AND SHEPHERD by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SONNET: 2 by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 17 by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING |