Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: MARCH, 1878, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN


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First Line: The blackbird sits and pipes his love-notes clear
Last Line: And golden hues for grey, and bloom for blight.
Subject(s): Spring


THE blackbird sits and pipes his love-notes clear
In yon dark tracery of budding sprays,
Sharply defined against the distant haze,
But soon 'mid fresh green leaves to disappear:
Now soft, now keen, the wind breathes hope and fear,
While with unsheltered almond flowers It plays:
The skies are sad, remembering winter days,
But birds and blossoms know that Spring is here.

I, too, foresee her glory, and rejoice;
Though to my heart she comes in wintry guise,
Dark-robed, slow-stepping; for in eye and voice
Are promises of music and of light,
And I can wait till smiles shall come for sighs,
And golden hues for grey, and bloom for blight.







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