Nature

Spring

by Isaac Rosenberg 1890–1918

From Poems (1922)

NatureLove

I walk and I wonder
To hear the birds sing;
Without you, my lady,
How can there be Spring?
I see the pink blossoms
That slept for a year,
But who could have waked them
While you were not near?

Birds sing to the blossoms,
Blind, dreaming your pink;
These blush to the songsters,
Your music they think:
So well had you taught them
To look and to sing,
Your bloom and your music,
The ways of the Spring.

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A short lyric in which the speaker wonders at the singing birds. Without his lady, how can there be Spring?

MLA

Rosenberg, Isaac. “Spring.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rosenberg/20/.

Chicago

Rosenberg, Isaac. “Spring.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rosenberg/20/.

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