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
Spring in Winter
By Charlotte Fiske Bates (18381916)[From Risk, and Other Poems. 1879.]
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Than, while the winter’s lingering,
To taste the blessedness of spring.
That aught were spent;—but rich am I!
Untouched spring’s golden sum doth lie.