Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET: MAY, 1879, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poet's Biography First Line: At last, coy spring, concede one festal day Last Line: Whose shadows are but images of flowers. Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
AT last, coy Spring, concede one festal day To us who yearn thy beauty to behold; These pallid leaves, that peer above the mould, Perfume and brighten; lanes and woods array With hawthorn, that was wont to bloom in May, White-petalled, crimson-anthered; lilies cold, With drooping bells that hide their central gold, And sun-bright buttercups and cowslips gay. Long have we listened to a song of death, That wild winds chant o'er living seeds entombed: Sing thou of life; inspire us with thy breath; Transfuse thy lustre e'en through clouds and showers; Our hearts shall glow, like dells by thee illumed, Whose shadows are but images of flowers. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD A LETTER by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN |
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