April Twilights and Other Poems

<h3><SPAN name="FIDES_SPES" id="FIDES_SPES"></SPAN>FIDES, SPES</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">J</span>oy is come to the little<br/></span> <span class="i4">Everywhere;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Pink to the peach and pink to the apple,<br/></span> <span class="i4">White to the pear.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Stars are come to the dogwood,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Astral, pale;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Mists are pink on the red-bud,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Veil after veil.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Flutes for the feathery locusts,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Soft as spray;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Tongues of lovers for chestnuts, poplars,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Babbling May.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Yellow plumes for the willows’<br/></span> <span class="i4">Wind-blown hair;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Oak trees and sycamores only<br/></span> <span class="i4">Comfortless, bare.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Sore from steel and the watching,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Somber and old,<br/></span> <span class="i0">(Wooing robes for the beeches, larches,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Splashed with gold,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Breath of love from the lilacs,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Warm with noon,)<br/></span> <span class="i0">Great hearts cold when the little<br/></span> <span class="i4">Beat mad so soon.<br/></span> <span class="i0">What is their faith to bear it<br/></span> <span class="i4">Till it come,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Waiting with rain-cloud and swallow,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Frozen, dumb?<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_16" id="page_16">{16}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />