Between Seasons The cherry trees are haunted By hordes of robber jays, And warmer winds are fanning The poppies to a blaze And loosed in fitful flurries, The sweet syringes fall, To lie like little snow-drifts Against the garden wall. Upon the laden lattice, In softly rounding shapes, A wealth of tiny clusters Are growing into grapes Heigho! a drowsy shimmer Enfolds the sunny hours; And humming-birds are hidden In scarlet trumpet-flowers. The tenderness of springtime Is almost overpast; But O, the gracious summer, It comes, it comes at last! Back to Evaleen Stein Page
Between Seasons
The cherry trees are haunted By hordes of robber jays, And warmer winds are fanning The poppies to a blaze
And loosed in fitful flurries, The sweet syringes fall, To lie like little snow-drifts Against the garden wall.
Upon the laden lattice, In softly rounding shapes, A wealth of tiny clusters Are growing into grapes
Heigho! a drowsy shimmer Enfolds the sunny hours; And humming-birds are hidden In scarlet trumpet-flowers.
The tenderness of springtime Is almost overpast; But O, the gracious summer, It comes, it comes at last!
Back to Evaleen Stein Page
Stein, Evaleen (1902). Among the Trees Again. Indianapolis, IN: The Bown-Merrill Company.