Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL


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SPRING, by                    
First Line: Madness, madness of bird-note
Last Line: Spring, spring, spring is en rampage again!
Subject(s): Spring


Madness, madness of bird-note,
Running, running, running up the scale
Quite beyond the ear's timbre.
Madness, madness of dust-mote,
Rising on a Jacob's ladder—
(Green and blue and yellow of daffodils
Is this mote-ladder;
Playthings of the sun
These rung-climbers!)
Madness, madness of flower blooms
Hepaticas, hepaticas, hepaticas!
Madness, madness of Nature's looms
Where she is weaving, is weaving,
Dead-white anemones
With eyes so timid, so bewildered
They are only white's deviation,
Or a sky's winter blue
Reflected in snow-water;
Where she is leafing, is leafing,
Sugar maples and willows
(Willows potential with exuberant whistles
To be blown by small exultant boys)
Nature is champing, is champing,
Straining at bridle and bit and rein,
Infinite hosts are tramping, are tramping,
Spring, Spring, Spring is en rampage again!





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