Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING-SONG, by DOROTHEA LAWRANCE MANN


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First Line: Spring comes earliest in flower-shops
Last Line: For spring is here!
Subject(s): Spring


Spring comes earliest in flower-shops,
Bringing windows riotous with bloom --
Pink and yellow, white and blue, blossoms calling you!
And beyond the door you whiff the moist warm sweet odor
Of Nature in her workshop.

Will you have the purple violets
With their heavy stifling fragrance,
And the passion and perfection of their satin-sheen?
They were meant to nestle close against the bosom
Of a dream-rich woman whose soft firm fingers move among their petals,
While her dark eyes brood above them, --
Warm and tender -- with memories of you!

There is welcome in the fragrance of the roses.
They were meant for glowing girlhood --
To match the color in her cheeks
And the swinging rhythm of her step
On tip-toe with excitement at the wonder of the world --
They will sway against a bosom -- where they wake no memories!

And then there is the orchid -- fair exotic stranger.
All contrary and wise, she holds herself aloof
And waits the heavy-lidded woman with experience in her eyes --
What they have to tell each other you and I will never know!
See the riot of the tulips --
Unfragrant, unmysterious,
They grace the dinner table of a mother or a wife.

Beyond the flashing tulips stand the yellow jonquils.
Nothing else has ever caught so fearlessly the color of the sun.
They always seem to whisper
A merry little tune of happy days to come,
So buy them for their glowing gold -- and forget them in an hour!

But come into the flower-shop if only for a moment,
And drink deep of all the colors of the spring!
Open wide your nostrils
And inhale the mellowed fragrance of a dozen different flowers mingling in the
warm damp room.
Just come into the flower-shop -- and laugh! --
For spring is here!





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