Mark Turbyfill. Pulse of Spring. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

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

Pulse of Spring

By Mark Turbyfill


From “Wind-flowers” THE SPRING has spilt a shining net
Of green-gold buds
Upon the boughs
Of this gray linden-tree.

The hyacinth has lit its torch of amethyst.	5

A robin sways upon a bow-curved twig,
And sweetly cries.

O spring, forbear!