by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860 - 1943)
Spring breaks in foam
Language: English
Spring breaks in foam
Along the blackthorn bough.
Whitethroat and goldenwing
Are mating now.
With green buds in the copse
And gold bloom in the sun
Earth is one ecstasy
Of life begun.
And in my heart
Spring breaks in glad surprise
And the long frosts of the long years melt
At your dear eyes.
Confirmed with The Collected Poems of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts, edited by Desmond Pacey, Wolfville, NS: The Wombat Press, 1985, page 312
Text Authorship:
- by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860 - 1943), "Spring breaks in foam" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Mabel P. (Phoebe?) Cave-Browne-Cave (1881 - 1958), "Spring breaks in foam" [voice and piano], unpublished [text verified 1 time]
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