Stedman and Hutchinson, comps. A Library of American Literature:
An Anthology in Eleven Volumes. 1891.
Vols. IX–XI: Literature of the Republic, Part IV., 1861–1889
O Soft Spring Airs!
By Harriet Prescott Spofford (18351921)C
Come from your silver shining seas,
Where all day long you toss the wave
About the low and palm-plumed keys!
The balms and blisses of the South,
And blow across the longing land
The breath of your delicious mouth.
The myrtle thicket where you sigh;
Oh, leave the nightingale, for here
The robin whistles far and nigh!
Thrills with the fulness you shall take,
And wrapped away from life and love
The wild rose dreams, and fain would wake.
And tiptoe in the dusk and dew,
Each sod of the brown earth aspires
To meet the sun, the sun and you.
Create the old delightful things,
And woo the frozen world again
With hints of heaven upon your wings!