<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=356135" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Seasons</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh the cheerful Budding-time!<br>When thorn-hedges turn to green,<br>When new leaves of elm and lime<br>Cleave and shed their winter screen;<br>Tender lambs are born and 'baa,'<br>North wind finds no snow to bring,<br>Vigorous Nature laughs 'Ha, ha,'<br>In the miracle of spring.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh the gorgeous Blossom-days!<br>When broad flag-flowers drink and blow, <br>In and out in summer-blaze<br>Dragon-flies flash to and fro;<br>Ashen branches hang out keys,<br>Oaks put forth the rosy shoot,<br>Wandering herds wax sleek at ease,<br>Lovely blossoms end in fruit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh the shouting Harvest-weeks!<br>Mother earth grown fat with sheaves<br>Thrifty gleaner finds who seeks;<br>Russet-golden pomp of leaves <br>Crowns the woods, to fall at length;<br>Bracing winds are felt to stir,<br>Ocean gathers up her strength,<br>Beasts renew their dwindled fur.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Oh the starving Winter-lapse!<br>Ice-bound, hunger-pinched and dim;<br>Dormant roots recall their saps,<br>Empty nests show black and grim,<br>Short-lived sunshine gives no heat,<br>Undue buds are nipped by frost, <br>Snow sets forth a winding-sheet,<br>And all hope of life seems lost.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christina+Georgina+Rossetti">Christina Georgina Rossetti</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=356135" data-title="Seasons de Christina Georgina Rossetti" data-description="Oh the cheerful Budding-time! When thorn-hedges turn to green, When new leaves of elm and lime Cleave and shed their winter screen; Tender lambs are born and 'baa,' North wind finds no snow to bring, Vigorous Nature laughs 'Ha, ha,' In the miracle..."></div> </div> </div>

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