Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING-TIME, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poet's Biography First Line: For once the zephyrs have removed the cold Last Line: Some scantling buds, like ill-set gems, unfold. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Flowers; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Spring | ||||||||
FOR once the zephyrs have removed the cold: One year is over, and a new begun. So short a winter, I am daily told, Never yet yielded to this northern sun. I see the children skipping o'er the green, Plucking the faint unodorous violet, A gentle stranger, rarely ever seen. With other flowers the mead is sparsely set -- Brown birds are twittering with the joy of spring: The universal swallow, ne'er at rest, Aye chirping, glances past on purple wing, And builds beneath the humble eaves her nest. The plant, which yester-year the share o'erthrew, Looks up again from out the opening mould; And the poor vines, though here but weak and few, Some scantling buds, like ill-set gems, unfold. | 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 METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 8. BAUCIS AND PHILEMON by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 1, ELEGY 1 by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO AMORES [THE LOVES]: BOOK 2, ELEGY 19 by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO |
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