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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FIFTH AVENUE-SPRING AFTERNOON, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's running over with color Last Line: Rises your face! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fields; Fifth Avenue, New York City; Flowers; Primroses; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas | |||
THE world's running over with color, With whispers, strange fervors and April There's a smell in the air as if meadows Were under our feet. Spring smiles at the commonest waysides; But she pours out her heart to the city, As one woman might to another Who meet after years... Restless with color and perfume, The streets are a riot of blossoms. What garden could boast of such flowers Not Eden itself. Primroses, pinks and gardenias, Shame the gray town and its squalor Windows are flaming with jonquils; Fires of gold! Out of a florist's some pansies Peer at the crowd, like the faces Of solemnly mischievous children Going to bed... And womenSpring's favorite children Frail and phantastically fashioned, Pass like a race of immortals, Too radiant for earth. The pale and the drab are transfigured, They sing themselves into the sunshine Every girl is a lyric, An urge and a lure. And, like a challenge of trumpets, The Spring and its impulse goes through me Breezes and flowers and people Sing in my blood... Breezes and flowers and people And under it all, oh belovèd, Out of the song and the sunshine, Rises your face! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD by ROBERT BLY THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES by ROBERT BLY QUESTION IN A FIELD by LOUISE BOGAN THE LAST MOWING by ROBERT FROST FIELD AND FOREST by RANDALL JARRELL AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON IN FIELDS OF SUMMER by GALWAY KINNELL A BIRTHDAY by LOUIS UNTERMEYER A VOICE FROM THE SWEAT-SHOPS (A HYMN WITH RESPONSES) by LOUIS UNTERMEYER |
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