Sunday, April 30, 2023

April / H. Cordelia Ray


from The Procession of the Seasons


Elf holding a bouquet in Spring, ca. 1890
Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
April

She trips across the meadows,
    The weird capricious elf!
The buds unfold their perfumed cups
    For love of her sweet self;
And silver-throated birds begin to tune their lyres,
While wind-harps lend their strains to Nature's magic choirs.

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

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

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