Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SPRING IS COME AGAIN NOT AS AT FIRST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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Last Line: Peace on my brow now marked with many a line
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Spring


The spring is come again not as at first
For then it was my spring; & now a brood
Of bitter memories haunt me, & my mood
Is much changed from the time when I was nursed
In the still country. Oh! my heart could burst
Thinking upon the long ago: the crude
Hopes all unrealised; the flowers that strewed
My path, now changed to painful thorns & curst.
And though I know the kingcups are as fine
As they were then, my spirit cannot soar
As it did once: when shadows of a wood
Or thinking of a blossom that soon should
Unfold & fill the air with scent, would pour
Peace on my brow now marked with many a line.





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