Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING UNDER THE CYPRESSES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cypresses, here in the stony Last Line: Sings here alone, and is lost to the bushes. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Italy; Spring; Italians | ||||||||
UNDER the cypresses, here in the stony Woods of the mountain, the Spring too is sunny. Rare Spring and early, Birds singing sparely, Pale sea-green hellebore smelling of honey. Desolate, bright, in the blue Lenten weather, Cones of the cypresses sparkle together, Shining brightly, Loosely and lightly, The winds lift the branches and stir them and feather. Where the sun pierces, the sharp boulders glitter Desolate, bright; and the white moths flitter Pallidly over The bells that cover With faint-smelling green all the fragrant brown litter. Down in the plain the sun ripens for hours -- Look! in the orchards a mist of pale flowers -- Past the rose-hedges A-bloom to the edges, A smoke of blue olives, a vision of towers! Here only hellebore grows, only shade is; Surely the very Spring here half afraid is: Out of her bosom Drops not a blossom, Mutely she passes through -- she and her ladies. Mutely? Ah, no; for a pause, and thou hearest One bird who sings alone -- one bird, the dearest. Nay, who shall name it, Call it or claim it? Such birds as sing at all sing here their clearest. Ah, never dream that the brown meadow-thrushes, Finches, or happy larks sing in these hushes. Only some poet Of birds, flying to it, Sings here alone, and is lost to the bushes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...1851: A MESSAGE TO DENMARK HILL by RICHARD HOWARD TONIGHT THE HEART-SHAPED LEAVES by JAN HELLER LEVI JEWISH GRAVEYARDS, ITALY by PHILIP LEVINE SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO by ROBERT LOWELL SUNLIGHT AND SHADOW by LISEL MUELLER HOW DUKE VALENTINE CONTRIVED by BASIL BUNTING FRAGMENTS FROM ITALY: 1 by JOHN CIARDI AN ORCHARD AT AVIGNON by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON |
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