March / H. Cordelia Ray

March

Robin! Robin! Call the Springtime!
    March is halting on his way;
Hear the gusts. What! snowflakes falling!
    Look not for the grass today.
    Ay, the wind will frisk and play,
    And we cannot say it nay.

~~
H. Cordelia Ray (1852-1916)
from Poems, 1910

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

H. Cordelia Ray biography

Tim Felce, "Robin - March 2009." CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.