Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="THE_NEW_SPRING" id="THE_NEW_SPRING"></SPAN>THE NEW SPRING</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">The long grief left her old&mdash;and then</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Came love and made her young again</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">As though some newer, gentler Spring</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Should start dead roses blossoming;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Old roses that have lain full long</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">In some forgotten book of song,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Brought from their darkness to be one</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">With lilting winds and rain and sun;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">And as they too might bring away</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">From that dim volume where they lay</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Some lyric hint, some song's perfume</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">To add its beauty to their bloom,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">So love awakes her heart that lies</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Shrouded in fragrant memories,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">And bids it bloom again and wake</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Sweeter for that old sorrow's sake.</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />