ONCE hoary Winter chanced -- alas! Alas ! hys waye mistaking -- A leafless apple-tree to pass Where Spring lay dreaming. "Fie, ye lass! Ye lass had best be waking," Quoth he, and shook hys robe, and, lo! Lo! forth didde flye a cloud of snowe. Now in ye bough an elfe there dwelte, An elfe of wondrous powere, That when ye chillye snowe didde pelte, With magic charm each flake didde melte, Didde melte into a flowere; And Spring didde wake and marvelle how, How blossomed so ye leafless bough. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TWO VOYAGERS by EMILY DICKINSON IN THE PINK' by SIEGFRIED SASSOON THE LAMENTATION OF DANAE by SIMONIDES OF CEOS EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 13. CUPID IS A WARRIOR by PHILIP AYRES THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: TO MIGNONNE by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 16 by THOMAS CAMPION |