Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DESCRIPTION OF SPRING, by HENRY HOWARD


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First Line: The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings
Last Line: Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs.
Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of
Variant Title(s): "description Of Spring, Wherein Each Thing Renews Save Only The Lover;spring;summer;summer Is Come;sonnet;summer Is Gone;morte 42: Sonetto (imitated From Petrarch);spring, But;""the Soote Season, That Bud And Blome Furth Bringes"";
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness


The soote [sweet] season, that bud and bloom forth brings,
With green hath clad the hill and eke the vale;
The nightingale with feathers new she sings;
The turtle to her make hath told her tale.
Summer is come, for every spray now springs;
The hart hath hung his old head on the pale;
The buck in brake his winter coat he flings,
The fishes float with new repaired scale;
The adder all her slough away she slings,
The swift swallow pursueth the flies small;
The busy bee her honey now she mings.
Winter is worn, that was the flowers' bale.
And thus I see among these pleasant things,
Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs.




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