What is the message that in time of Spring Within the earth each root receives? What power Is given eternally to everything That grows, to stir, to swell, to bud, to flower? What is the message birds receive, to make Them North or South with one accord take flight, And safety of their present ease forsake For perilous pilgrimage through blackest night? Perhaps it's what @3we@1 feel at Christmas-tide ... That aching-sweet desire, that ceaseless surge Of unstilled longing just to be beside All those we dearly love. Yes! Love's the urge That makes the flowers bloom and birds take wing! Stirs us and them and lives in everything. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BRIDAL SONG by GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559-1634) TO MY MOTHER SLEEPING by MARY RUSSELL MITFORD IKE WALTON'S PRAYER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY SONNET: 94 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE MERLIN AND THE GLEAM by ALFRED TENNYSON HAWTHORN by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |