Villanelle \u2014 Clarence Owen<\/strong><\/p>\nWhen I hear you softly sing,
\nLittle one, with eyes of blue,
\nAll my thoughts are of the Spring.<\/p>\n
Violets are blossoming,
\nEverything seems fresh and new,
\nWhen I hear you softly sing.<\/p>\n
In the skies the bird’s on wing,
\nIn your eyes the light is true,
\nAnd my thoughts are of the Spring.<\/p>\n
Little brooks are whispering,
\nMurm’ring, little one, like you,
\nWhen I hear you softly sing.<\/p>\n
Though the Autumn winds may ring
\nThrough the trees of sombre hue,
\nAll my thoughts are of the Spring.<\/p>\n
Though the Autumn winds may ring
\nCold and sadness\u2014sorrow too\u2014
\nWhen I hear you softly sing,
\nAll my thoughts are of the Spring.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u2014 Cheshire\u00a0<\/em>1.1 (November 1931)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Approach of Spring \u2014 Eunice Rickaby<\/strong><\/p>\nI’ll bid my daffodils to grow;
\nI’ll coax my bluebirds back to sing
\nSongs\u00a0 that lull me with tales aglow
\nOf sunshine, showers, sap and spring
\nEven catching the wind on wing
\nIn their melodies throbbing low.
\nI’ll bid my daffodils to grow;
\nI’ll coax my bluebirds back to sing;
\nAnd then the mild South wind will blow.
\nThoughts of gaiety it will bring,
\nPledging spring with flowers on row
\nTo salve the past cold winter’s sting.
\nI’ll bid my daffodils to grow;
\nI’ll coax my bluebirds back to sing.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u2014 Cheshire\u00a0<\/em>1.4 (May 1932)<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Sonnet \u2014 G. Chojnacki<\/strong><\/p>\nSpringtime projects are bound to rise and swell
\nand point to darkened hothouse flowerbeds.
\nWe sweatsoak feeling clumps until well-fed;
\nIn summer’s striking heat we’re parallel.
\nThe stroke of summer but precedes the spell
\nwhen autumn’s musk feels green a touching red
\nbetween the sheets of leaves, the rest unsaid;
\nToo soon the soil is bare, too cold to dwell.
\nToo cold to dwell on the wrinkled snows of death.
\nYet spring is anxious to become a fact;
\nIn fact, the summer too is hard to grasp.
\nBut autumn is the time to catch your breath
\nand keep it there to hold your love intact;
\nthe seasoned gardener guards against the asp.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
\u2014 Cheshire <\/em>33.2 (Summer 1964)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Springtime is here, so check out these vintage seasonal offerings from the original Cheshire, two from early, and one from much later, in the magazine’s history. Good and true with age. Happy weekend! Villanelle \u2014 Clarence Owen When I hear you softly sing, Little one, with eyes of blue, All my thoughts are of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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