Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/Another Spring

by Christina Georgina Rossetti

ANOTHER SPRING.

IF I might see another Spring
 I'd not plant summer flowers and wait;
I'd have my crocuses at once,
My leafless pink mezereons,
 My chill-veined snow-drops, choicer yet
 My white or azure violet,
Leaf-nested primrose; anything
 To blow at once, not late.

If I might see another Spring
 I'd listen to the daylight birds
That build their nests and pair and sing,
Nor wait for mateless nightingale;
 I'd listen to the lusty herds,
 The ewes with lambs as white as snow,
I'd find out music in the hail
 And all the winds that blow.

If I might see another Spring—
 Oh stinging comment on my past
That all my past results in "if"—
 If I might see another Spring
I'd laugh to-day, to-day is brief;
I would not wait for anything:
 I'd use to-day that cannot last,
 Be glad to-day and sing.