April is National Poetry Month: rejoice! In celebration, Thigpen Library in Gallatin is offering a poetry books display and is giving away poems from our “Poetry Patch.” Compose your own poems at Thipgen Library in Cookeville: visit their “Poetry Creation Station.”
Here’s a poem about April for your enjoyment. Want to find yourself a poem or learn about a poem’s meaning? Search ProQuest’s Literature Online database.
April.—Longfellow.
[1] When the warm sun, that brings
[2] Seed-time and harvest, has returned again,
[3] ‘Tis sweet to visit the still wood, where springs
[4] The first flower of the plain.
[5] I love the season well,
[6] When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,
[7] Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell
[8] The coming-in of storms.
[9] From the earth’s loosened mould
[10] The sapling draws its sustenance, and thrives:
[11] Though stricken to the heart with winter’s cold,
[12] The drooping tree revives.
[13] The softly-warbled song
[14] Comes through the pleasant woods, and colored wings
[15] Are glancing in the golden sun, along
[16] The forest openings.
[17] And when bright sunset fills
[18] The silver woods with light, the green slope throws
[19] Its shadows in the hollows of the hills,
[20] And wide the upland glows.
[21] And when the day is gone,
[22] In the blue lake, the sky, o’erreaching far,
[23] Is hollowed out, and the moon dips her horn,
[24] And twinkles many a star.
[25] Inverted in the tide
[26] Stand the gray rocks, and trembling shadows throw,
[27] And the fair trees look over, side by side,
[28] And see themselves below.
[29] Sweet April, many a thought
[30] Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed;
[31] Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought,
[32] Life’s golden fruit is shed.
Longfellow, Henry W. April, Baltimore, 1831. ProQuest Literature Online, https://libproxy.volstate.edu/login?url=https://search.proquest.com/docview/2147524361?accountid=14861.