Poems By Arjava

SILVER mist of April shower,

Primrose -pale and cuckooflower,

Blossoms agleam with a magical power

Rosy and white on the crab-apple tower.

Foxglove red and campion see,

Foamy tuft of elder tree ;

Poised o'er the pool mid the drone of the bee

Kingfisher trance on the willow-root knee.

Twilight blue of ripening sloes ;

Saffron-bright the birch leaf glows ;

Back in his lair let the dormouse doze

Dreaming of cornfields and white hedge-rose.

Spring may peep from winter's edge—

Coltsfoot stars the terrace ledge,

Catkins aswing on the high hazel hedge,

Golden the sun-glint of celandine pledge.