Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (18141902)Extracts from May Carols: A sudden sun-burst in the woods
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But late sad Winter’s palace dim!
O’er quickening boughs and bursting buds
Pacific glories shoot and swim.
Conclusive joy by force invades,
So swift the new-born splendours throng;
Such lustre swallows up the shades.
From stem to stem obliquely smite
Till all the forest aisle respires
The golden-tongued and myriad light:
With floral fire are fringed: but all
Yon sombre vault of meeting boughs
Turns to a golden fleece its pall,
O Spring, thy limit-line is crossed!
O Earth, some orb of singing Souls
Brings down to thee thy Pentecost!