Een gedicht van Christina Rossetti

SEASONS

In Springtime when the leaves are young,
Clear dowdrops gleam like jewels, hung
On boughs the fair birds roost among.

When ummer comes with sweet unrest,
Birds weary of their mother's breast,
And look abroad and leave the nest.

In Autumn ere the waters freeze,
The swallows fly across the seas:—
If we could fly away with these!

In Winter when the birds are gone,
The sun himself looks starved and wan,
And starved the snow he shines upon.


Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)
Uit The Illustrated Poets — Christina Rossetti
Selected and with an introduction by Peter Porter
Oxford University Press, 1986