Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SPRING, by ELLA TREW SIMPERS


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SPRING, by                    
First Line: There is work to be done in the world, I know
Last Line: For the gods of spring are by.
Subject(s): Spring; Wellesley College


THERE is work to be done in the world, I know,
Yet little enough care I,
For May comes in softly, shyly with beauty,
And the gods of Spring are by.

Apollo rides high in his flaming chariot,
Swiftly -- nor brooking delay,
Eager and laughing and bold -- wantonly
Squandering his golden day.

The slim young trunk of a silver birch --
Swaying and smooth and tall --
Imprisons a lithe-limbed Daphne -- flight-checked,
Half heeding Apollo's call.

And Pan in his woods is trying his pipes --
Skirting the streams for new reeds,
Leaving the mark of his cloven hoof
Half-hid in a tangle of weeds.

Then away from the work of the world, say I,
For the gods of Spring are by.





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