Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING'S ADVENT, by WILLIAM SHARP


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SPRING'S ADVENT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The spirit of spring is in the air
Last Line: Mocking, she dares the circling shadow of time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Spring; Time; World


The Spirit of Spring is in the air;
The daffodils wave blithe and free
To the wind's minstrelsy,
And everywhere
A green rebirth involves each branchlet bare.

Already from the elm-tree boughs
The jubilant thrush doth cry aloud;
From fallow fields new ploughed
The plovers rouse;
In hollow boles no more the squirrels drowse.

The blackbird calls his thrilling note;
And by each field, and copse, and glade
The leverets race, the rabbits raid;
Where gorse-blooms float
The yellow-yite pipes o'er and o'er by rote.

In the blue arch of sky, cloud-swept,
The unseen larks are singing;
The green grass is springing:
While nature slept,
Leaf-crown'd, bird-haunted Spring hath hither leapt.

O joy of winds, and birds, and flowers;
Of growing grass, of budding leaves,
Of green and sappy sheaves,
Of rustling showers,
Sunshine, and plenitude of marvellous hours.

Thrilled Earth beholds her golden prime
Returned again; her heart beats swift.
Low-laughing, as the spring winds lift
Their songs sublime,
Mocking, she dares the circling Shadow of Time.





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