The Late Wisconsin Spring
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The Late Wisconsin Spring
Harshness vanished. A sudden softness
has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,
has replaced the meadows' wintry grey.
Little rivulets of water changed
their singing accents. Tendernesses,
Early Spring by Rainer Maria Rilke - All Poetry
April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47311/the-waste-land
“memory and desire, stirring“ hit the sentiments of the presence.