Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BY THE SOUTH CANADIAN, by JOSEPH FRANCIS PAXTON First Line: Down near the river's sands Last Line: The promise of spring. Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
Down near the river's sands Prodigally strewn for miles, on yonder side, I saw scrub plum-thickets abloom, And caught with delight their delicate scent. I heard too, the tinkling chimes of many meadow larks. Then crashed the cynic cawing of a crow, Who, shrugging and bobbing, rasped My nerves and every dulcet air that blew. My spine with goose-flesh tremors was shaken As if Fate's bleakness in the shadows lurking Had fallen athwart the greening earth, -- The blossoming plum-trees: The promise of Spring. | 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 WHEN THE CAT'S AWAY (VARIATIONS ON AN OLD FOLK SONG) by JOSEPH FRANCIS PAXTON |
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