Another Spring by Christina Georgina Rossetti
If able to see another spring, the speaker would choose early flowers and listen to nesting birds, herds, hail and wind without waiting for later pleasures. Regretting the uncertainty left by the past, the speaker would laugh and sing today, making use of a day that cannot last.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Nature Poetry, Meditative Poetry · 234 words
First lines
If I might see another Spring / I'd not plant summer flowers and wait: / I'd have my crocuses at once, / My leafless pink mezereons, / My chill-veined snowdrops, choicer yet / My white or azure violet, / Leaf-nested primrose; anything / To blow at once not late.
If I might see another Spring / I'd listen to the daylight birds / That build their nests and pair and sing, / Nor wait for mateless nightingale; / I'd listen to the lusty herds, / The ewes with lambs as white as snow, / I'd find out music in the hail / And all the winds that blow.
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Three rhymed stanzas repeat the speaker's conditional wish for another spring and express personal regret and desired happiness.
- Nature Poetry — Early flowers, nesting birds, ewes with lambs, hail and wind supply the pleasures the speaker would seek.
- Meditative Poetry — The final stanza considers what the past has left uncertain and how the speaker would use the brief present.
Tags
spring · early flowers · birdsong · regret · living in the present
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Nature Poetry, Meditative Poetry
- Length: 234 words
- Structure: 1 section, 3 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Difficult (College Level)
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