Summer by Christina Georgina Rossetti
The speaker prefers summer to winter’s cold and the changeability of spring and autumn, describing leafy trees, singing birds and busy insects. Before apples and nuts ripen, the speaker values one day in the country as much as a month in town.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Nature Poetry, Seasonal Poetry · 217 words
First lines
Winter is cold-hearted, / Spring is yea and nay, / Autumn is a weathercock / Blown every way: / Summer days for me / When every leaf is on its tree;
When Robin's not a beggar, / And Jenny Wren's a bride, / And larks hang singing, singing, singing, / Over the wheat-fields wide, / And anchored lilies ride, / And the pendulum spider / Swings from side to side,
And blue-black beetles transact business, / And gnats fly in a host, / And furry caterpillars hasten / That no time be lost, / And moths grow fat and thrive, / And ladybirds arrive.
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The verses describe leafy trees, larks over wheat fields, lilies, spiders and numerous insects.
- Seasonal Poetry — The speaker contrasts the four seasons and chooses summer before apples and nuts ripen.
Tags
country life · birdsong · insects · seasonal contrasts
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Seasonal Poetry
- Length: 217 words
- Structure: 1 section, 4 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Very Confusing
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