Spring Poem

Spring Poem - meaning Summary

Spring Heals a Sorrowing Heart

Desanka Maksimovic's spring poem presents a first-person speaker watching early buds and swallows and feeling their heart expand and lighten. It describes emotional renewal: sorrow softens, joy grows, and longing for life’s simple gifts intensifies. The speaker has an abundant capacity for love, wanting to give the heart freely while admitting some feelings remain private. Nature’s revival frames this gentle optimism, so the poem balances hope and continued desire with the recognition that not all of the self can be given away.

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While watching all these early buds and swallows, I can feel tonight that my heart’s slowly growing over sorrows as someone’s horizon on smiley days might; That it’s getting bigger like all plants around and as light as feather, and that all happiness that’s above the ground and a Hell of pain wouldn’t really matter: It’s longing for all things that a life as such could give nice to thy, and completely nothing wouldn’t be too much -- it’s eager desire and hopes are so high. Everything that’s happened has been just a play of my heart on fire; My true love has never been given away as much as I could and as I desire; There are, in my deeps, gentle tides of words never let outside; I could give my heart to everyone on worlds, yet, it would remain a lot of it inside.