The University of Michigan Library provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes. These materials are in the public domain in the United States. If you have questions about the collection please contact Digital Content & Collections at dlps-help@umich.edu, or if you have concerns about the inclusion of an item in this collection, please contact Library Information Technology at LibraryIT-info@umich.edu.
"Poems. Volume I / H.F. Gould [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD5889.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
Pages
THE CROCUS'S SOLILOQUY.
Down in my solitude under the snow,Where nothing cheering can reach me;Here, without light to see how to grow,I'll trust to nature to teach me.
I will not despair, nor be idle, nor frown,Locked in so gloomy a dwelling;My leaves shall run up, and my roots shall run down,While the bud in my bosom is swelling.
Soon as the frost will get out of my bed,From this cold dungeon to free me,I will peer up with my little bright head;All will be joyful to see me.
Then from my heart will young petals diverge,As rays of the sun from their focus;I from the darkness of earth will emergeA happy and beautiful Crocus!
Gaily arrayed in my yellow and green,When to their view I have risen,Will they not wonder how one so sereneCame from so dismal a prison?
descriptionPage 163
Many, perhaps, from so simple a flowerThis little lesson may borrow—Patient to-day, through its gloomiest hour,We come out the brighter to-morrow!
email
Do you have questions about this content? Need to report a problem?
Please contact us.