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THE DAFFODILS by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE

Poet Analysis

First Line: NOW THROUGH THE APRIL LAND DOTH PASS
Last Line: YET GO WE EMPTY THROUGH THE WOOD!
Subject(s): KNIVES; DAGGERS;

NOW through the April land doth pass,
As through the slim, Sicilian grass,
The Vision of the Daffodils --
Persephone! Persephone!
And ever still Persephone!
This antique cry the weather fills.
It is the old mood of the spring,
A sweet and a heart-breaking thing --
The budding joy, the vanished good;
For, though we pluck the daffodils,
Or walk with laughter on the hills,
Yet go we empty through the wood!




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