Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONG OF APRIL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poet's Biography First Line: The censer of the eglantine was moved Last Line: And ground winds rocking in the lily's steeple. Subject(s): April | ||||||||
THE censer of the eglantine was moved By little lane winds, and the watching faces Of garden flowerets, which of old she loved, Peep shyly outward from their silent places. But when the sun arose the flowers grew bolder, And she will be in white, I thought, and she Will have a cuckoo on her either shoulder, And woodbine twines and fragrant wings of pea. And I will meet her on the hills of South, And I will lead her to a northern water, My wild one, the sweet beautiful uncouth, The eldest maiden of the Winter's daughter. And down the rainbows of her noon shall slide Lark music, and the little sunbeam people, And nomad wings shall fill the river side, And ground winds rocking in the lily's steeple. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR CITY SPRING by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET ESSAY ON STONE by HAYDEN CARRUTH APRIL NOT AN INVENTORY BUT A BLIZZARD by ALICE NOTLEY APRIL ONE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER APRIL by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS MEMORY OF APRIL by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS APRIL MORTALITY by LEONIE ADAMS EVENING CLOUDS by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE |
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