Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A SONG OF SPRING, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN



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First Line: In april's dim and showery nights
Last Line: With the sweet promise of the year.
Subject(s): Spring


IN April's dim and showery nights,
When wandering perfumes, faint and rare,
Float on the breeze; and phosphor lights
Glimmer and fade along the air;

When the green turf is white with flowers,
Where orchards shed their floral wreath,
And like the fairy-gifted child,
Drop precious pearls at every breath;

When all night long the boughs are stirr'd
With fitful warblings from the nest,
And the heart flutters like a bird,
With its sweet, passionate unrest;

Oh! then, beloved, I think on thee!
And on that life, so strangely fair,
Ere yet one cloud of memory
Had gather'd in hope's golden air.

I think on thee, and thy lone grave,
On the green hill-side far away;
I see the wilding flowers that wave
Around thee, as the night-winds sway

Though Hope can ne'er on earth fulfil
The glory of her morning dream,
The mystic soul of Nature still
Resumes her sweet, unfailing theme.

As Proserpine returned once more
On Enna's flowery fields to rove,
Still doth the breathing spring restore
The sorrowing heart to light and love.

And still though only clouds remain
On life's horizon, cold and drear;
The dream of youth returns again,
With the sweet promise of the year.





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