Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIORGIONE: GEMMA'S SPRING SONG, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies, dawn creeps down the valley Last Line: From their shadowy hearts again? Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
LADIES, dawn creeps down the valley; Listen to the laughing girls As a-Maying forth they sally Hid by orchard blossom-whirls. Slowly swirls All our vesture, starred with each bloom; Come, the young breeze flings us peach-bloom And our kiss-tossed tresses curls. 'Ware! Costanza seeks to pelt you With the dripping May-bloom sprays; Lo, the wind of petals dealt you Hair and bosom overlays. Days on days Will the hedgerows wane and whiten, Flush and fade and throb and lighten Down the white wet meadow-ways. Liperata has a lover -- Leave her loitering shyly thus Where the river-mists yet hover And narcissus dimly blows. Wait for us, Little lover, till, returning, Bring we jonquils jewel-burning, Shoots of golden cytisus. Reap for garlands as we wander Cerule-circling cyclamen: Almonded with oleander Soon we'll dance deep Summer in. When, ah, when Will the sleepy roses waken And slow dew each morn be shaken From their shadowy hearts again? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD |
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