<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119297" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Persephone</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The wild bird's first exultant strain<br>Says,—"Winter is over—over!"<br>And spring returns to the wold again,<br>With breath as of lilac and clover.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a certain soft, appealing grace<br>(Surely some sorrow hath kissed her!)<br>She gives to our vision her girlish face,<br>And we know how we've missed her—missed her!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For on a day she went away,<br>Long ere the leaves were falling,<br>And came no more for the whitethroat's lay,<br>Or the pewee's plaintive calling:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In tender tints on her broidered shoon<br>Blossomed the leaves of the myrtle,<br>And silky buds of the darling June<br>Were folded up in her kirtle;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And fair, fair, fair, in her sunlit hair<br>Were violets intertwining,<br>That seemed more fresh and unfading there<br>Than when with dewdrops shining!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She hid them all in her dim retreat:<br>But, heart! a truce to sighing;<br>She's here—incomparably sweet,<br>Unchanging and undying!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We see her brow, and we rejoice,<br>Her cheek, as it pales and flushes,<br>We hear once more in her thrilling voice<br>The note of the woodland thrushes;</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And through her lashes, tear-empearled,<br>A mystic light is breaking,<br>And all the love of the whole wide world<br>Seems in her eyes awaking!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Florence+Earle+Coates">Florence Earle Coates</a> from <i>Mine and Thine</i><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=119297" data-title="Persephone de Florence Earle Coates" data-description="The wild bird's first exultant strain/Says,—"Winter is over—over!"/And spring returns to the wold again,/With breath as of lilac and clover./With a certain soft, appealing grace/(Surely some sorrow hath kissed her!)/She gives to our vision her..."></div> </div> </div>

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