Yvor Winters. Old Spring. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Old Spring

By Yvor Winters


THE FLOWERING crabtrees
Have melted like the twilights.

Here a brown road
Dull amid bark shadows
And an old man walking—	5

And between the woods
The dandelions
Like dried scattered leaves.

But in my country
The spring is old.	10
The violet and red
Are laid in earth,
Will not be lost.

And I there, standing,
Or moving slowly.	15