Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NEVER BELIEVE, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL


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First Line: Never believe me when I say
Last Line: Never believe that I am weeping.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki
Subject(s): Faith; Spring; Belief; Creed


Never believe me when I say
The Spring would be less fair without you;
Be warned -- there is no permanence
In anything I say about you.

When April nights are warm and sweet,
Never believe my bed is narrow;
Nor that the Spring means less to me
Than to the crocus of the sparrow.

When pussy-willows come to birth,
A faithful heart is much too solemn
For dancing underneath a tree
With wet bark like a fluted column.

Never believe that it is prayer
That breaks my intermittent slumber;
I am not one of those who wake
To scourge themselves, times without number.

And if at last you see me walk
Through fields that grew too late for reaping,
Between two rows of naked stalks,
Never believe that I am weeping.





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