Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR SPRING, BY SANDRO BOTTICELLI, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mask [or, masque] of what old wind-withered new year Last Line: These mummers of that wind-withered new-year? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Art & Artists; Botticelli, Sandro (1444-1510); Mythology - Classical; Paintings & Painters; Spring; Venus (goddess); Filipepi, Alesandro Di Mariano | ||||||||
(In the Accademia of Florence) WHAT masque of what old wind-withered New-Year Honours this Lady? Flora, wanton-eyed For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied: Aurora, Zephyrus, with mutual cheer Of clasp and kiss: the Graces circling near, 'Neath bower-linked arch of whhite arms glorified: And with those feathered feet which hovering glide O'er Spring's brief bloom, Hermes the harbinger. Birth-bare, not death-bare yet, the young stems stand, This Lady's temple-columns: o'er her head Love wings his shaft. What mystery here is read Of homage or of hope? But how command Dead Springs to answer? And how question here These mummers of that wind-withered New-Year? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BOTTICELLI'S 'PRIMAVERA' by JOHN GALSWORTHY LA NASCITA DE VENERE (BOTTICELLI) by GRACE E. TOLLEMACHE BOTTICELLI'S MADONNA IN THE LOUVRE by EDITH WHARTON FOUND' (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A LITTLE WHILE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A SEA-SPELL (FOR A PICTURE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI A TRIP TO PARIS AND BELGIUM: 16. ANTWERP TO GHENT by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI ASPECTA MEDUSA by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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