Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 87. WRITTEN IN OCTOBER, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blasts of autumn as they scatter round Last Line: For never more to me the spring of hope returns! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Spring | ||||||||
The blasts of Autumn as they scatter round The faded foliage of another year, And muttering many a sad and solemn sound, Drive the pale fragments o'er the stubble sere, Are well attuned to my dejected mood; (Ah! better far than airs that breathe of Spring!) While the high rooks, that hoarsely clamouring Seek in black phalanx the half-leafless wood, I rather hear, than that enraptured lay Harmonious, and of Love and Pleasure born, Which from the golden furze, or flowering thorn Awakes the Shepherd in the ides of May; Nature delights me most when most she mourns, For never more to me the Spring of Hope returns! | 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 ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 4. TO THE MOON by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH |
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