Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PROPHETIC SPRING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today 'tis spring; the hawthorn tree Last Line: Each other, she and I. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Spring; Male-female Relations | ||||||||
TO-DAY 'tis Spring; the hawthorn-tree Is green with buds; to-day maybe She whom I think of thinks of me, And finds the thought enough; And when those buds are grown to leaves, That thought wherein she scarce believes Will grow perhaps to love. Soon as the flowers of May appear, For love of me she will draw near, And hoping, dreading, I shall hear Perhaps, and own my bliss. Awhile beneath the hawthorn sweet Our o'erstrained quickening hearts will beat, Our purple thirsting mouths will meet And revel in their kiss. But when pink May becomes red June, And summer sounds a glorious tune, Under some lordlier tree aswoon Together we shall lie. And then to-day's half-timid thought, May's thrill and kiss will seem as nought To the full joy we shall have taught Each other, she and I. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MISERY AND SPLENDOR by ROBERT HASS THE APPLE TREES AT OLEMA by ROBERT HASS DOUBLE SONNET by ANTHONY HECHT CONDITIONS XXI by ESSEX HEMPHILL CALIFORNIA SORROW: MOUNTAIN VIEW by MARY KINZIE SUPERBIA: A TRIUMPH WITH NO TRAIN by MARY KINZIE COUNSEL TO UNREASON by LEONIE ADAMS |
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