Sweet Springtime

George Eliot 1819 (Nuneaton, Warwickshire) – 1880 (Chelsea, London)



It was in the prime
Of the sweet springtime
In the linnet's throat
Trembled the love note,
And the love-stirred air
Thrilled the blossoms there.
Little shadows danced,
Each a tiny elf
Happy in large light
And the thinnest self.

It was but a minute
In a far-off spring,
But each gentle thing,
Sweetly wooing linnet,
Soft thrilled hawthorn tree,
Happy shadowy elf,
With the thinnest self,
Live on still in me.
It was in the prime
Of the past springtime!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Scheme Aabbccxdxd xeexfddfAa
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 441
Words 83
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 10

George Eliot

Mary Anne Evans, better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. more…

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