<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=341490" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Alfred Tennyson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poet! in other lands, when Spring no more<br>Gleams o'er the grass, nor in the thicket-side<br>Plays at being lost and laughs to be descried,<br>And blooms lie wilted on the orchard floor,<br>Then the sweet birds that from Ægean shore<br>Across Ausonian breakers thither hied,<br>Own April's music in their breast hath died,<br>And croft and copse resound not as before.<br>But, in this privileged Isle, this brave, this blest,<br>This deathless England, it seems always Spring.<br>Though graver wax the days, Song takes not wing.<br>In Autumn boughs it builds another nest:<br>Even from the snow we lift our hearts and sing,<br>And still your voice is heard above the rest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alfred+Austin">Alfred Austin</a><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=341490" data-title="To Alfred Tennyson de Alfred Austin" data-description="Poet! in other lands, when Spring no more Gleams o'er the grass, nor in the thicket-side Plays at being lost and laughs to be descried, And blooms lie wilted on the orchard floor, Then the sweet birds that from Ægean shore Across Ausonian breaker..."></div> </div> </div>

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