SPRING POEMS: BLAKE & FROST

2015 - 25   Spring Poems: Blake & Frost

William Blake [1757-1827]

Spring - Poem by William Blake

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Sound the flute!      
Now it's mute!

Bird's delight,
Day and night,
Nightingale,
In the dale,
Lark in sky,--
Merrily merrily, 
To welcome in the year.

Little boy,

Full of joy;
Little girl,
Sweet and small;
Cock does crow,
So do you;
Merry voice,
Infant noise;
Merrily, merrily, 
To welcome in the year.

Little lamb,
Here I am;
Come and lick
My white neck;
Let me pull
Your soft wool;
Let me kiss
Your soft face;
Merrily, merrily, 
To welcome in the year. 

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Robert Frost [1874-1963]

A Prayer In Spring - Poem by Robert Frost

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Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;
And give us not to think so far away
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here
All simply in the springing of the year.

Oh, give us pleasure in the orchard white,
Like nothing else by day, like ghosts by night;
And make us happy in the happy bees,
The swarm dilating round the perfect trees.

And make us happy in the darting bird
That suddenly above the bees is heard,
The meteor that thrusts in with needle bill,
And off a blossom in mid air stands still.

For this is love and nothing else is love,
The which it is reserved for God above
To sanctify to what far ends He will,
But which it only needs that we fulfil. 

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