A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking \"The spring equinox is coming up, but I'm sure not feeling very celebratory. Wonder what I should post.\"<\/p>\n
But my mood has sprung forward since then, most likely due primarily to changes in the weather (really it's pretty much been summer here the past couple days), and so I am pleased at the arrival of the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox, which is happening minutes from now as I type this.<\/p>\n
Although I am sorry to hear that in some parts of the country, winter's snows<\/em> aren't even over, much less winter's rains. Sympathies. Also sympathies to those of y'all whose winter's rains ended up in your basements; that sounded awful.<\/p>\n But I'm nonetheless gonna proceed with my usual quote:<\/p>\n For winter's rains and ruins are over,<\/p>\n And all the season of snows and sins;<\/p>\n The days dividing lover and lover,<\/p>\n The light that loses, the night that wins;<\/p>\n And time remember'd is grief forgotten,<\/p>\n And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,<\/p>\n And in green underwood and cover<\/p>\n Blossom by blossom the spring begins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n —Algernon Charles Swinburne, from "Atalanta in Calydon<\/a>" (1865)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n I may as well post a couple of the other verses from last year again as well.<\/p>\n Such as this one:<\/p>\n Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure;<\/p>\n And spring comes green again to trees and grasses<\/p>\n Where petals have been shed like tears<\/p>\n And lonely birds have sung their grief.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n —Tu Fu, from "A Spring View<\/a>" (c. 750), trans. Witter Bynner<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n And this:<\/p>\n now, the flowers are fresh and plentiful<\/p>\n time to wash windows, strip off winter's forgetfulness,<\/p>\n come to terms and to some kind of truce<\/p>\n<\/div>\n --Margaret James, from "March 18<\/a>" (2007)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As always, 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>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A couple of weeks ago, I was thinking “The spring equinox is coming up, but I’m sure not feeling very…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,74,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-time","category-verse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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