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Poem by Francis Ledwidge


Spring


Once more the lark with song and speed
Cleaves through the dawn, his hurried bars;
Fall, like the flute of Ganymede
Twirling and whistling from the stars.

The primrose and the daffodil
Surprise the valleys, and wild thyme
Is sweet on every little hill,
When lambs come down at folding time.

In every wild place now is heard
The magpie's noisy house, and through
The mingled tunes of many a bird
The ruffled wood-dove's gentle coo.

Sweet by the river's noisy brink
The water-lily bursts her crown,
The kingfisher comes down to drink
Like rainbow jewels falling down.

And when the blue and grey entwine
The daisy shuts her golden eye,
And peace wraps all those hills of mine
Safe in my dearest memory. 



Francis Ledwidge

Poem Theme: Spring

Francis Ledwidge's other poems:
  1. After Court Martial
  2. Ceol Sidhe
  3. A Mother's Song
  4. The Lost Ones
  5. Thoughts at the Trysting Stile


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Samuel Johnson Spring ("Stern Winter now, by Spring repress'd")
  • Christina Rossetti Spring ("Frost-locked all the winter")
  • Alfred Tennyson Spring ("Birds' love and birds' song")
  • Gerard Hopkins Spring ("Nothing is so beautiful as spring")
  • Isaac Rosenberg Spring ("I walk and wonder")
  • William Morris Spring ("Spring am I, too soft of heart")
  • Thomas Nashe Spring ("Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king")
  • Andrew Lang Spring ("Now the bright crocus flames, and now")
  • Janet Hamilton Spring ("Fairy Spring, in kirtle green")
  • Robert Anderson Spring ("The snow's dissolv'd, the chilly winter's fled")
  • Alfred Douglas Spring ("Wake up again, sad heart, wake up again!")
  • William Campbell Spring ("There dwells a spirit in the budding year")
  • James Percival Spring ("AGAIN the infant flowers of Spring")
  • John Lapraik Spring ("THOU goddess of the blooming Spring")
  • Edna Millay Spring ("To what purpose, April, do you return again?")
  • Henry Timrod Spring ("Spring, with that nameless pathos in the air")
  • Lola Ridge Spring ("A spring wind on the Bowery")
  • Marion Angus Spring ("THE green corn springs")
  • Celia Thaxter Spring ("The alder by the river")

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