Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | III. The Seasons | | Spring | | Ebenezer Elliott (1781–1849) |
| | | AGAIN the violet of our early days | |
| Drinks beauteous azure from the golden sun, | |
| And kindles into fragrance at his blaze; | |
| The streams, rejoiced that winter’s work is done, | |
| Talk of to-morrow’s cowslips, as they run. | 5 |
| Wild apple, thou art blushing into bloom! | |
| Thy leaves are coming, snowy-blossomed thorn! | |
| Wake, buried lily! spirit, quit thy tomb! | |
| And thou shade-loving hyacinth, be born! | |
| Then, haste, sweet rose! sweet woodbine, hymn the morn, | 10 |
| Whose dewdrops shall illume with pearly light | |
| Each grassy blade that thick embattled stands | |
| From sea to sea, while daisies infinite | |
| Uplift in praise their glowing hands, | |
| O’er every hill that under heaven expands. | 15 | | | |
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