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Edna St. Vincent Millay - The Spring And The Fall

In the spring of the year, in the spring of the year, 
I walked the road beside my dear. 
The trees were black where the bark was wet. 
I see them yet, in the spring of the year. 
He broke me a bough of the blossoming peach 
That was out of the way and hard to reach. 

In the fall of the year, in the fall of the year, 
I walked the road beside my dear. 
The rooks went up with a raucous trill. 
I hear them still, in the fall of the year. 
He laughed at all I dared to praise, 
And broke my heart, in little ways. 

Year be springing or year be falling, 
The bark will drip and the birds be calling. 
There's much that's fine to see and hear 
In the spring of a year, in the fall of a year. 
'Tis not love's going hurt my days. 
But that it went in little ways.

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Poet: Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poem: The Spring And The Fall
Year: Published/Written in 1923
Poem of the Day: Mar 13 2013

Comment 10 of 10, added on August 11th, 2012 at 4:17 PM.
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2c5777. I serve a great big God. I serve a risen Saviour. I serve One who could not love me more than He already does.778. 1 Peter 4:12 e2809cThink it not stnrage concerning the fiery trials you go through.e2809d God has an excellent purpose for every single trial I will ever face and He promises to be with me through them all.779. Paule28099s response to the hard things he went through: e2809cIn all these things we are more than conquererse2809d (Rm 8:37)780. Warm hugs and kisses and open arms and a wonderful husband and children that I love who were waiting for me to return home to on Tuesday night. It was a great vacation and great to be home.

Emanuel from Nicaragua
Comment 9 of 10, added on December 5th, 2008 at 10:04 AM.

I first read this poem in 1957 and I was 12 years old. I memorized is then and it was my first recollection of knowing something about life from a poem.
"Art can tell the truth obliquely"
I am now since married over 40 years and NEVER forgot the insight I took from this poem which, in part, is that men need to show their love in many ways now just to save love but to nourish it lovingly.
Today my wife and I were looking out the window and were admiring a blossoming azalea and I said to her it should be a blossoming peach. Hence the revisit to this wonderful/powerful poem. JJH

Jerry Hanley from United States
Comment 8 of 10, added on May 18th, 2008 at 5:56 PM.

I loved this poem the minute I read it. My heart spoke out to me and I can never forget it.

Shorya GHAi from United States

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