StoryTitle("caps", "March") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(49, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Such bright gold under my window-sill!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Is it fairy gold? Does it glitter still? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bless me! it is but a daffodil!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And look at the crocus keeping tryst ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With the daffodil by the sunshine kissed. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like beautiful bubbles of amethyst", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They seem, blown out of the earth's snow-mist.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And snowdrops' delicate fairy bells", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "With a pale green tint like the ocean swells;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the hyacinths wearing their perfumed spells! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The ground is a rainbow of asphodels!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who said that March was a scold and a shrew? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Who said she had nothing on earth to do", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But tempest of fairies and rags to brew?", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Why, look at the wealth she has lavished on you!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O March that blusters and March that blows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What color under your footsteps glows!", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Beauty you summon from winter snows,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you are the pathway that leads to the rose.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Celia Thaxter.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>