Skip to content
Linespedia

In Spring

Topics: classic

See how the trees and the osiers lithe     Are green bedecked and the woods are blithe,     The meadows have donned their cape of flowers,     The air is soft with the sweet May showers,     And the birds make melody:     But the spring of the soul, the spring of the soul,     Cometh no more for you or for me.     The lazy hum of the busy bees     Murmureth through the almond trees;     The jonquil flaunteth a gay, blonde head,     The primrose peeps from a mossy bed,     And the violets scent the lane.     But the flowers of the soul, the flowers of the soul,     For you and for me bloom never again.

AI analysis available. Enable JavaScript to interact.

About this line

"See how the trees and the osiers lithe..."

"In Spring" is a quintessential example of Ernest Christopher Dowson's signature style... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...

Classified Tags

Related lines

"Neobule, being tired,     Far too tired to laugh or weep,     From the hours, rosy and gray,     Hid her golden face away.     Neobule, fain o"

"I seek no more to bridge the gulf that lies     Betwixt our separate ways;     For vainly my heart prays,     Hope droops her head and dies;"

"Exceeding sorrow     Consumeth my sad heart!     Because to-morrow     We must depart,     Now is exceeding sorrow     All my part!     Giv"

"Sleep! Cast thy canopy     Over this sleeper's brain,     Dim grow his memory,     When he awake again.     Love stays a summer night,     T"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

Continue Reading

"Neobule, being tired,     Far too tired to laugh o..."

Weekly Poetic Insight

Join our literary Sanctuary

Get the most inspiring lines, poetic analysis, and secret shayaris delivered to your inbox every Sunday.