April Twilights and Other Poems

<h3><SPAN name="SONG" id="SONG"></SPAN>SONG</h3> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">T</span>roubadour, when you were gay,<br/></span> <span class="i0">You wooed with rose and roundelay,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Singing harp-strings, sweet as May.<br/></span> <span class="i0">From beneath the crown of bay<br/></span> <span class="i0">Fell the wild, abundant hair.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Scent of cherry bloom and pear<br/></span> <span class="i0">With you from the south did fare,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Buds of myrtle for your wear.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Soft as summer stars thine eyes,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Planets pale in violet skies;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Summer wind that sings and dies<br/></span> <span class="i0">Was the music of thy sighs.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Troubadour, one winter’s night,<br/></span> <span class="i0">When the pasture-lands were white<br/></span> <span class="i0">And the cruel stars were bright,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Fortune held thee in despite.<br/></span> <span class="i0">Then beneath my tower you bore<br/></span> <span class="i0">Rose nor rondel as of yore,<br/></span> <span class="i0">But a heavy grief and sore<br/></span> <span class="i0">Laid in silence at my door.<br/></span> <span class="i0">April yearneth, April goes;<br/></span> <span class="i0">Not for me her violet blows,<br/></span> <span class="i0">I have done for long with those.<br/></span> <span class="i0">At my breast thy sorrow grows,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Nearer to my heart, God knows,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Than ever roundelay or rose!<br/></span> <span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_44" id="page_44">{44}</SPAN></span></div> </div></div> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />