Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SPRING SONG AND A LATER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sang a song of may for me Last Line: As dim as autumn rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): May (month); Singing & Singers; Spring | ||||||||
SHE sang a song of May for me, Wherein once more I heard The mirth of my glad infancy -- The orchard's earliest bird -- The joyous breeze among the trees New-clad in leaf and bloom, And there the happy honey-bees In dewy gleam and gloom. So purely, sweetly on the sense Of heart and spirit fell Her song of Spring, its influence -- Still irresistible, -- Commands me here -- with eyes ablur -- To mate her bright refrain, Though I but shed a rhyme for her As dim as Autumn rain. | 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 A BOY'S MOTHER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY |
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