Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WHEN LEAVES BEGIN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES


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First Line: When leaves begin to show their heads
Last Line: Her fair white body in the light.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Leaves; Spring


WHEN leaves begin to show their heads,
Before they reach their curly youth;
And birds in streams are coming north,
With seas of music from the south;

Then -- like a snail with horns outstretched --
My senses feel the air around;
There's not a move escapes my eyes,
My ears are cocked to every sound.

Till Nature to her greenest comes,
And -- with her may that blossoms white --
Bursts her full bodice, and reveals
Her fair white body in the light.





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