Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, YOUTH RENEWED, by JAMES MONTGOMERY


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First Line: Spring-flowers, spring-birds, spring-breezes
Last Line: A richer, purer, mellower draught.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Spring; Youth


SPRING-FLOWERS, spring-birds, spring-breezes
Are felt, and heard, and seen;
Light trembling transport seizes
My heart, -- with sighs between:
These old enchantments fill the mind
With scenes and seasons far behind;
Childhood, its smiles and tears,
Youth, with its flush of years,
Its morning-clouds and dewy prime,
More exquisitely touch'd by Time.

Fancies again are springing,
Like May-flowers in the vales;
While hopes, long lost, are singing,
From thorns, like nightingales;
And kindly spirits stir my blood,
Like vernal airs, that curl the flood:
There falls to manhood's lot
A joy, which youth has not.
A dream more beautifull than truth,
-- Returning Spring, renewing Youth.

Thus sweetly to surrender
The present for the past;
In sprightly mood, yet tender,
Life's burden down to cast,
-- This is to taste, from stage to stage,
Youth on the lees refined by age:
Like wine well kept and long,
Heady, not harsh, nor strong,
With every annual cup, is quaff'd
A richer, purer, mellower draught.





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