Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE IMP OF SPRING-TIME, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: Over the eaves where the sunbeams fall Last Line: Let him deceive me! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Love; Spring; Time | ||||||||
OVER the eaves where the sunbeams fall Twitters the swallow; I hear from the mountains the cataract call: Follow, oh, follow! Buds on the bushes and blooms on the mead Swiftly are swelling; Hark! the Spring whispereth: "Make ye with speed Ready my dwelling." Out of the tremulous blue of the air Calling before her, Who was it bade me "Awake and prepare, Thou mine adorer!" "Leave me," I said; "I have known thee of old, Love the annoyer, Arming, at last, with thine arrows of gold, Time, the Destroyer." "Follow," he laughed, "where the bliss of the earth Wooes thee, compelling; Yet in the Spring, and her thousandfold birth, I, too, am dwelling." Out of the buds he was peeping, and sang Soft with the swallow; Yea, and he called where the cataract sprang: Follow, oh, follow! Vain to defy, or evade, or, in sooth, Bid him to leave me! But his deception is dearer than truth: Let him deceive me! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND BEDOUIN [LOVE] SONG by BAYARD TAYLOR NATIONAL ODE; INDEPENDENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA by BAYARD TAYLOR |
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