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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MORE LIFE, by ALICE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: When spring-time prospers in the grass
Last Line: More love, more light, more life!
Subject(s): Life
First Line: When spring-time prospers in the grass
Last Line: More love, more light, more life!
Subject(s): Life
WHEN spring-time prospers in the grass,
And fills the vales with tender bloom,
And light winds whisper as they pass
Of sunnier days to come:
In spite of all the joy she brings
To flood and field, to hill and grove,
This is the song my spirit sings, --
More light, more life, more love!
And when, her time fulfilled, she goes
So gently from her vernal place,
And meadow wide and woodland glows
With sober summer grace:
When on the stalk the ear is set,
With all the harvest promise bright,
My spirit sings the old song yet, --
More love, more life, more light.
When stubble takes the place of grain,
And shrunken streams steal slow along,
And all the faded woods complain
Like one who suffers wrong;
When fires are lit, and everywhere
The pleasures of the household rife,
My song is solemnized to prayer, --
More love, more light, more life!
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