Waiting
I thought my heart would break
Because the Spring was slow.
I said, "How long young April sleeps
Beneath the snow!"
But when at last she came
And buds broke in the dew,
I dreamed of my lost love,
And my heart broke, too!
~~
Charles Hanson Towne (1877-1949)
from Beyond the Stars, and other poems, 1913
[Poem is in the public domain in Canada and the United States]
Charles Hanson Towne biography
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