SPRING
MORNING

BY

FRANCES CORNFORD

(Woodcuts by G. Raverat)

THE POETRY BOOKSHOP
PRICE TWO SHILLINGS & SIXPENCE
NET

SPRING MORNING
BY
FRANCES CORNFORD

A NEW EDITION

(Third Thousand)

LONDON
THE POETRY BOOKSHOP
35 DEVONSHIRE STREET, THEOBALDS ROAD, W.C.
1923

CONTENTS

SPRING MORNING	5
A RECOLLECTION	6
YOUTH AND AGE	7
A CHILD'S DREAM	8
TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM THE TRAIN	10
A WASTED DAY	11
IN FRANCE	12
THE OLD WITCH IN THE COPSE	13
IN DORSET	16
THE WATCH	17
PEOPLE	18
DAWN	19
MOUNTAINS	20
A PEASANT WOMAN	21
AUTUMN MORNING AT CAMBRIDGE	22
AUTUMN EVENING	22
AT NIGHT	23

SPRING MORNING

Now the moisty wood discloses
Wrinkled leaves of primèroses,
While the birds, they flute and sing:
Build your nests, for here is Spring.

All about the open hills
Daisies shew their peasant frills,
Washed and white and newly spun
For a festival of sun.

Like a blossom from the sky,
Drops a yellow butterfly,
Dancing down the hedges grey
Snow-bestrewn till yesterday.

Squirrels skipping u

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