April -- North Carolina
1860-1936
Would you not be in Tryon
Now that the spring is here,
When mocking-birds are praising
The fresh, the blossomy year?
Look -- on the leafy carpet
Woven of winter's browns
Iris and pink azaleas
Flutter their gaudy gowns.
The dogwood spreads white meshes --
So white and light and high --
To catch the drifting sunlight
Out of the cobalt sky.
The pointed beech and maple,
The pines, dark-tufted, tall,
Pattern with many colors
The mountain's purple wall.
Hark -- what a rushing torrent
Of crystal song falls sheer!
Would you not be in Tryon
Now that the spring is here?
DayPoems Poem No. 1328
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1328.html">April -- North Carolina by Harriet Monroe</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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