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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INCIPIT VITA NOVA, by WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE First Line: What time the earth takes on the garb of spring Last Line: Sang ere he wrote the comedy divine! | |||
WHAT time the earth takes on the garb of Spring, And new-born joy runs riot in the blood, When the year's tide turns refluent to its flood, And blissful birds their songs are carolling, -- When life once more is fair, and everything In nature smiles, when tender flowrets bud, And deck the mead as stars the heavens stud, -- What wonder that my heart leaps up to sing! What wonder that to thee my song of praise I bring, and burn sweet incense at thy shrine, And offer all the worship of my lays To thee, whose loveliness hath lent my days That life renewed whereof the Florentine Sang ere he wrote the Comedy Divine! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TANNHAUSER by WILLIAM MORTON PAYNE THE KINGFISHER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES CHRISTMAS by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR JUDITH by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AFTER SUNSET by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM BLESS THE BLESSED MORN by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR MAUDLIN'S SONG: 1, FR. MIDSUMMER EVE by GORDON BOTTOMLEY THE JOLLY BEGGARS; A CANTATA RECITATIVO by ROBERT BURNS |
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