Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN



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First Line: A black north wind that chills
Last Line: When I was young!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): April; Country Life; Memory; Nature; Spring; Youth


A BLACK North Wind that chills
New leaves and songs scarce sung;
It was not so in Aprils
When I was young.

Thrush-notes and blackbird-trill
The blossomy boughs among;
All in the leafy Aprils
When I was young.

Showers on the heavenly hills
Rainbow and silver hung;
Such tears and smiles were April's
When I was young.

Small streams and babbling rills,
Green ways where gossamers swung;
The young lambs leaped in Aprils
When I was young.

Daisies and daffodils,
Primroses newly sprung;
Fragrant and fresh the Aprils
When I was young.

Here in this town that kills,
The heart for cold is wrung.
It's O for the happy Aprils
When I was young!





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