It turns out that the machines that awoke me this morning did so a mere 15 minutes or so after this year's vernal equinox. Had I only known, I might have gotten up and posted this earlier.<\/p>\r\n
Here's my usual spring-equinox quote:<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\r\nFor winter's rains and ruins are over,<\/p>\r\n
And all the season of snows and sins;<\/p>\r\n
The days dividing lover and lover,<\/p>\r\n
The light that loses, the night that wins;<\/p>\r\n
And time remember'd is grief forgotten,<\/p>\r\n
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,<\/p>\r\n
And in green underwood and cover<\/p>\r\n
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
--Algernon Charles Swinburne, from "Atalanta in Calydon<\/a>" (1865)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
Here an older piece of spring verse:<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\r\nThough a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;<\/p>\r\n
And spring comes green again to trees and grasses<\/p>\r\n
Where petals have been shed like tears<\/p>\r\n
And lonely birds have sung their grief.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
--Tu Fu, from "A Spring View<\/a>" (c. 750), trans. Witter Bynner<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
And a bit of spring Frost:<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\r\nOh, give us pleasure in the flowers to-day;<\/p>\r\n
And give us not to think so far away<\/p>\r\n
As the uncertain harvest; keep us here<\/p>\r\n
All simply in the springing of the year.<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
--Robert Frost, from "A Prayer in Spring<\/a>" (1915)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
A more recent snippet:<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\r\nnow, the flowers are fresh and plentiful<\/p>\r\n
time to wash windows, strip off winter's forgetfulness,<\/p>\r\n
come to terms and to some kind of truce<\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n
--Margaret James, from "March 18<\/a>" (2007)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n
The same about.com section where I got the above pieces also includes a very brief 2007 poem by Larissa Shmailo called \"Spring Vow<\/a>,\" which I won't reproduce here for copyright reasons. [Link updated in 2018.]<\/p>\r\n
. . . Also, as I mentioned last year: for more spring versifying, see my 2002 equinox entry<\/a> (featuring Horace\/Housman and a link to Eliot) and Twig's 2008 equinox entry<\/a> (featuring Mahler and Roethke).<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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