An April Day by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The speaker delights in spring warmth, reviving trees, and birdsong, then describes sunset and evening reflections in a lake. April is bound to thoughts that will endure until life's end.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · Genre: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Seasonal Poetry · 315 words
First lines
When the warm sun, that brings / Seed-time and harvest, has returned again, / 'T is sweet to visit the still wood, where springs / The first flower of the plain.
I love the season well, / When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, / Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell / The coming-on of storms.
Genres
- Nature Poetry — The verse describes flowering woods, recovering trees, birdsong, and reflections of sky, rocks, and trees in water.
- Lyric Poetry — A first-person speaker expresses love for the season and closes by addressing April with an enduring personal attachment.
- Seasonal Poetry — Returning warmth, the first flower, and trees reviving after winter establish the spring setting.
Tags
spring · woodlands · birdsong · sunset · lake reflections
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Nature Poetry, Lyric Poetry, Seasonal Poetry
- Length: 315 words
- Structure: 1 section, 8 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Easy (7th Grade)
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