Poetry Explorer


Classic and Contemporary Poetry


IN TUSCANY: MINOR NOTES; TWELVE RISPETTI: 8 by CORA RANDALL FABBRI

First Line: MY HEART,' I SAID-IT WAS A WHITE SPRING DAY
Last Line: THAN LAST YEAR'S ROSE, WHICH IS A MEMORY?

"My Heart," I said (it was a white Spring day,
With sweet wild birds adrift among the green)—
I said, "My Heart, our flowers are dead and gray,
Faint memories of the Summers that have been;
So let us from the fields new flowers bring." ...
I plucked a rose fresh from the heart of Spring;
I wonder why it is less sweet to me
Than last year's rose, which is a memory?



Home: PoetryExplorer.net