William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. (18781962). Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1920. 1920. |
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Alone in Spring |
| Caroline Giltinan |
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I NEVER met the Spring alone before: | |
The flowers, birds, the loveliness of trees, | |
For with me always there was one I love | |
And love is shield against such gifts as these. | |
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But now I am alone, alone, alone; | 5 |
The days and nights one long remembering. | |
Did other Aprils that we shared possess | |
The hurting beauty of this living Spring? | |
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I never met the Spring alone before | |
My starving griefthis radiance of gold!
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To be alone, when Spring is being born, | |
One should be deador suddenly grown old.
Contemporary Verse | |
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