From Spring Days to Winter
From Spring Days to Winter - meaning Summary
Love's Seasonal Rise and Fall
The poem tracks a seasonal arc from springtime joy to winter grief, using birds and nature to mirror romantic feeling. Early stanzas celebrate sudden, radiant love amid blossoms and fruit, conveyed as a golden-winged dove and a singing throstle. The mood shifts sharply as winter arrives: the beloved is dead, the song turns sad, and the speaker lays a broken-winged dove at her feet, expressing mourning and longing for a lost, idealized love.
Read Complete AnalysesIn the glad springtime when leaves were green, O merrily the throstle sings! I sought, amid the tangled sheen, Love whom mine eyes had never seen, O the glad dove has golden wings! Between the blossoms red and white, O merrily the throstle sings! My love first came into my sight, O perfect vision of delight, O the glad dove has golden wings! The yellow apples glowed like fire, O merrily the throstle sings! O Love too great for lip or lyre, Blown rose of love and of desire, O the glad dove has golden wings! But now with snow the tree is grey, Ah, sadly now the throstle sings! My love is dead: ah! well-a-day, See at her silent feet I lay A dove with broken wings! Ah, Love! ah, Love! that thou wert slain - Fond Dove, fond Dove return again!
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