Poem by Robert Seymour Bridges

Shorter Poems. Book IV. 6. April, 1885

Wanton with long delay the gay spring leaping cometh;
The blackthorn starreth now his bough on the eve of May:
All day in the sweet box-tree the bee for pleasure hummeth:
The cuckoo sends afloat his note on the air all day.

Now dewy nights again and rain in gentle shower
At root of tree and flower have quenched the winter’s drouth:
On high the hot sun smiles, and banks of cloud up-tower
In bulging heads that crowd for miles the dazzling south.

1. Shorter Poems. Book IV. 25. “Say Who Is This with Silvered Hair”
2. Shorter Poems. Book I. 12. “Who Has Not Walked upon the Shore”
3. Shorter Poems. Book II. 5. “There Is a Hill Beside the Silver Thames”
4. Shorter Poems. Book III. 8. “I Praise the Tender Flower”
5. Shorter Poems. Book IV. 7. “Gáy Róbin Is Seen No More”

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