The Spring



Cydonian Spring with her attendant train,
Maelids and water-girls,
Stepping beneath a boisterous wind from Thrace,
Throughout this sylvan place
Spreads the bright tips,
And every vine-stock is
Clad in new brilliancies.
And wild desire
Falls like black lightning.
bewildered heart,
Though every branch have back what last year lost,
She, who moved here amid the cyclamen,
Moves only now a clinging tenuous ghost.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on May 02, 2023

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Scheme ABBCDEBFGHIAJ
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 407
Words 66
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13

Ezra Pound

 · 1885 · Hailey, Idaho
 · 1972 · Venice

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic of the early modernist movement. more…

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  • Shocam
    This poem vividly depicts the vibrant renewal of spring, contrasted with the haunting presence of a lost love, evoking a sense of beauty mixed with lingering sorrow.
    LikeReply5 months ago

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