Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: 2. IN ABSENCE, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL


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First Line: These rugged, wintry days I scarce could bear
Last Line: That comes with steady sun when april dies.
Subject(s): Absence; Spring; Separation; Isolation


THESE rugged, wintry days I scarce could bear,
Did I not know, that, in the early spring,
When wild March winds upon their errands sing,
Thou wouldst return, bursting on this still air,
Like those same winds, when, startled from their lair,
They hunt up violets, and free swift brooks
From icy cares, even as thy clear looks
Bid my heart bloom, and sing, and break all care:
When drops with welcome rain the April day,
My flowers shall find their April in thine eyes,
Save there the rain in dreamy clouds doth stay,
As loath to fall out of those happy skies;
Yet sure, my love, thou art most like to May,
That comes with steady sun when April dies.





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