| Hunt and Lee, comps. The Book of the Sonnet. 1867. | | | | V. “Where lags my mistress while the drowsy year” | | By George Henry Boker (1823–1890) |
| | | WHERE lags my mistress while the drowsy year | |
| Wakes into spring? Lo! Winter sweeps away | |
| His snowy skirts, and leaves the landscape gay | |
| With early verdure; and there ’s merry cheer | |
| Among the violets, where the sun lies clear | 5 |
| On the south hillsides; and at break of day | |
| I heard the bluebird busy at my ear; | |
| And swallows shape their nests of matted clay | |
| Along the eaves, or dip their narrow wings | |
| Into the mists of evening. All the earth | 10 |
| Stirs with the wonder of a coming birth, | |
| And all the air with feathery music rings. | |
| Spring, it would crown thee with transcendent worth, | |
| To bring my love among thy beauteous things. | | | | |
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