Wednesday, 29 April 2020

April, Sara Teasdale (1915)

The roofs are shining from the rain.
The sparrows tritter as they fly,
And with a windy April grace
The little clouds go by.
 
Yet the back-yards are bare and brown
With only one unchanging tree—
I could not be so sure of Spring
Save that it sings in me.
                                                                                        (from the collection  Rivers to the Sea, 1915)
 
 

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