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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DESIRE IN SPRING, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poet's Biography
First Line: I love the cradle songs the mothers sing
Last Line: And silent changes colour up the hedge.
Subject(s): Spring
First Line: I love the cradle songs the mothers sing
Last Line: And silent changes colour up the hedge.
Subject(s): Spring
I LOVE the cradle songs the mothers sing
In lonely places when the twilight drops,
The slow endearing melodies that bring
Sleep to the weeping lids; and, when she stops,
I love the roadside birds upon the tops
Of dusty hedges in a world of Spring.
And when the sunny rain drips from the edge
Of midday wind, and meadows lean one way,
And a long whisper passes thro' the sedge.
Beside the broken water let me stay,
While these old airs upon my memory play,
And silent changes colour up the hedge.
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