The starshine on the Arch is silver white; Elves, April elves, are dancing in the Square; The green-robed Spring has come to town tonight. Jasmines are in her arms and clouded quite With lilac is the nimbus of her hair; The starshine on the Arch is silver white. With sap at floodtide and pale leaves bedight, Ghosts of gray trees assume a vernal air; The green-robed Spring has come to town tonight. Young lovers' lips seek for the old delight, On the park bench that winter-long was bare -- The starshine on the Arch is silver white -- And they who hear her primal call aright Rejoice that, deathless, virginal and fair, The green-robed Spring has come to town tonight. Dreamers whose windows on the Square are bright Know that your dreams may not with this compare; The starshine on the Arch is silver white, The green-robed Spring has come to town tonight. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FOR THE INVESTITURE by CECIL DAY LEWIS MA LADY'S LIPS AM LIKE DE HONEY (NEGRO LOVE SONG) by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE HARD TIMES IN ELFLAND; A STORY OF CHRISTMAS EVE by SIDNEY LANIER TO J. D. H. (KILLED AT SURREY C. H., OCTOBER, 1866) by SIDNEY LANIER THE CORNUCOPIA OF RED AND GREEN COMFITS by AMY LOWELL THE WALL STREET PIT, MAY, 1901 by EDWIN MARKHAM |