Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EARLY WILLOWS, by JAMES WREFORD WATSON First Line: There is no bargain basement no Last Line: At last will credit you. Alternate Author Name(s): Wreford, James Subject(s): Nature; Spring | ||||||||
There is no bargain basement no last January sale shall get a cut rate peace, a short cut to relieve the mounting debt. The corner drugstore noways can both diagnose and salve the grief that winters in the heart of man despite the swiftly pushing leaf. Too soon you paint the polder green, signal the special express of Spring: the steam's not up can save this year from the death-dropping wing. Too soon you flag the faltering hope, or burnish up the pale desire, thrust out the clenched fist and too soon explode the marsh with fire. Time shall not see you nest the song or hold the purple eggs of love: for war has still to glut the beak, and peace has lost its dove. Let not another green thing grow the rivers row or the West Wind blow; for the polar front has carried down the latitude of snow. In this cold sector shall no life be won but to be waste again: the rate of increase circles round to swell the count of pain. For what have aching root and branch born this tremendous, tremulous leaf? Shall not the profiteer produce his silver from our grief? And yet your spear-point protest shall revoke the Chellean man who stands above the thundering machine with groping, stone-age hands; cry irrepressible revolt against the winter mind that yet has not an end of winters made, and in your dying fret our snow-bound world with shadowed faith, if with the premature the not less true green of that far off common earth at last will credit you. | 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 KIRKLAND LAKE by JAMES WREFORD WATSON |
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