Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, APRIL (FROM A HOSPITAL WINDOW), by R. P. HARRISS


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APRIL (FROM A HOSPITAL WINDOW), by                    
First Line: It is hard to sit
Last Line: Her ploughtime ditty!
Subject(s): Hospitals; Windows


It is hard to sit
By a hospital window
Watching the warm
South winds blow!

O even here
April has smiled,
Waved her bright hair,
Sun-beguiled.

It is hard to watch,
Knowing well
That farmers away, away
Have green things to sell!

Seven leagues: Home
Fields turning green
And the hills
And meadows between.

By Hampshire pastures
Wagons pass
And sleek colts scamper
Over the grass.

And O outside
This very city
April is humming, humming
Her ploughtime ditty!





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