Love

Song: All suddenly the wind comes soft

by Rupert Brooke 1887–1915

From The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke (1915)

Love

All suddenly the wind comes soft,
And Spring is here again;
And the hawthorn quickens with buds of green,
And my heart with buds of pain.

My heart all Winter lay so numb,
The earth so dead and frore,
That I never thought the Spring would come,
Or my heart wake any more.

But Winter's broken and earth has woken,
And the small birds cry again;
And the hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds,
And my heart puts forth its pain.

MLA

Brooke, Rupert. “Song: All suddenly the wind comes soft.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/brooke/82/.

Chicago

Brooke, Rupert. “Song: All suddenly the wind comes soft.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/brooke/82/.

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