Spring Quiet by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The speaker wishes winter would end and spring arrive so they could seek shelter among singing birds and fragrant, budding branches. Whispering air invites them to dwell safely alone beside a clear stream and mossy stone, in shade with an echo of the distant sea.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 174 words
First lines
Gone were but the Winter, / Come were but the Spring, / I would go to a covert / Where the birds sing;
Where in the white-thorn / Singeth a thrush, / And a robin sings / In the holly-bush.
Full of fresh scents / Are the budding boughs, / Arching high over / A cool green house:
Full of sweet scents, / And whispering air / Which sayeth softly: / "We spread no snare;
Genres
- Nature Poetry — Birdsong, budding boughs, fragrant air and a clear stream furnish the speaker's imagined spring shelter.
- Lyric Poetry — Short, rhyming stanzas express the speaker's wish for spring and a secluded retreat.
Tags
spring · birdsong · woodland · solitude · streams
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 174 words
- Structure: 1 section, 6 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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