Christina Rossetti

Dec 5, 1830 - Dec 29, 1894

 

Another Spring

by Christina Rossetti

If I might see another Spring
I'd not plant summer flowers and wait
I'd have my crocuses at once,
My leafless pink mezereons,
My chill-veined snowdrops, choicer yet
My white or azure violet,
Leaf-nested primrose; anything
To blow at once not late.

If I might see another Spring
I'd listen to the daylight birds
That build their nests and pair and sing,
Nor wait for mateless nightingale;
I'd listen to the lusty herds,
The ewes with lambs as white as snow,
I'd find out music in the hail
And all the winds that blow.

If I might see another Spring --
Oh stinging comment on my past
That all my past results in if --
If I might see another Spring
I'd laugh to-day, to-day is brief;
I would not wait for anything:
I'd use to-day that cannot last,
Be glad to-day and sing.

Source:

Goblin Market and Other Poems
Copyright 1865
Macmillan And Co.London and Cambridge