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June could not hire +Her roses to forego the strength they learn +In sleeping on thy breast. No fires can burn +The bridges thou dost lay where men desire +In vain to build. + O Heart, when Love's sun goes +To northward, and the sounds of singing cease, +Keep warm by inner fires, and rest in peace. +Sleep on content, as sleeps the patient rose. +Walk boldly on the white untrodden snows, +The winter is the winter's own release. + + + + +February. + + + +Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white; +And reigns the winter's pregnant silence still; +No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill, +And willow stems grow daily red and bright. +These are the days when ancients held a rite +Of expiation for the old year's ill, +And prayer to purify the new year's will: +Fit days, ere yet the spring rains blur the sight, +Ere yet the bounding blood grows hot with haste, +And dreaming thoughts grow heavy with a greed +The ardent summer's joy to have and taste; +Fit days, to give to last year's losses heed, +To reckon clear the new life's sterner need; +Fit days, for Feast of Expiation placed! + + + + +March + + + +Month which the warring ancients strangely styled +The month of war,--as if in their fierce ways +Were any month of peace!--in thy rough days +I find no war in Nature, though the wild +Winds clash and clang, and broken boughs are piled +At feet of writhing trees. The violets raise +Their heads without affright, without amaze, +And sleep through all the din, as sleeps a child. +And he who watches well may well discern +Sweet expectation in each living thing. +Like pregnant mother the sweet earth doth yearn; +In secret joy makes ready for the spring; +And hidden, sacred, in her breast doth bear +Annunciation lilies for the year. + + + + +April + + + +No days such honored days as these! When yet +Fair Aphrodite reigned, men seeking wide +For some fair thing which should forever bide +On earth, her beauteous memory to set +In fitting frame that no age could forget, +Her name in lovely April's name did hide, +And leave it there, eternally allied +To all the fairest flowers Spring did beget. +And when fair Aphrodite passed from earth, +Her shrines forgotten and her feasts of mirth, +A holier symbol still in seal and sign, +Sweet April took, of kingdom most divine, +When Christ ascended, in the time of birth +Of spring anemones, in Palestine. + + + + +May + + + +O month when they who love must love and wed! +Were one to go to worlds where May is naught, +And seek to tell the memories he had brought +From earth of thee, what were most fitly said? +I know not if the rosy showers shed +From apple-boughs, or if the soft green wrought +In fields, or if the robin's call be fraught +The most with thy delight. Perhaps they read +Thee best who in the ancient time did say +Thou wert the sacred month unto the old: +No blossom blooms upon thy brightest day +So subtly sweet as memories which unfold +In aged hearts which in thy sunshine lie, +To sun themselves once more before they die. + + + + +June + + + +O month whose promise and fulfilment blend, +And burst in one! it seems the earth can store +In all her roomy house no treasure more; +Of all her wealth no farthing have to spend +On fruit, when once this stintless flowering end. +And yet no tiniest flower shall fall before +It hath made ready at its hidden core +Its tithe of seed, which we may count and tend +Till harvest. Joy of blossomed love, for thee +Seems it no fairer thing can yet have birth? +No room is left for deeper ecstasy? +Watch well if seeds grow strong, to scatter free +Germs for thy future summers on the earth. +A joy which is but joy soon comes to dearth. + + + + +July + + + +Some flowers are withered and some joys have died; +The garden reeks with an East Indian scent +From beds where gillyflowers stand weak and spent; +The white heat pales the skies from side to side; +But in still lakes and rivers, cool, content, +Like starry blooms on a new firmament, +White lilies float and regally abide. +In vain the cruel skies their hot rays shed; +The lily does not feel their brazen glare. +In vain the pallid clouds refuse to share +Their dews; the lily feels no thirst, no dread. +Unharmed she lifts her queenly face and head; +She drinks of living waters and keeps fair. + + + + +August + + + +Silence again. The glorious symphony +Hath need of pause and interval of peace. +Some subtle signal bids all sweet sounds cease, +Save hum of insects' aimless industry. +Pathetic summer seeks by blazonry +Of color to conceal her swift decrease. +Weak subterfuge! Each mocking day doth fleece +A blossom, and lay bare her poverty. +Poor middle-agèd summer! Vain this show! +Whole fields of golden-rod cannot offset +One meadow with a single violet; +And well the singing thrush and lily know, +Spite of all artifice which her regret +Can deck in splendid guise, their time to go! + + + + +September + + + +O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped! +The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung +On wands; the chestnut's yellow pennons tongue +To every wind its harvest challenge. Steeped +In yellow, still lie fields where wheat was reaped; +And yellow still the corn sheaves, stacked among +The yellow gourds, which from the earth have wrung +Her utmost gold. To highest boughs have leaped +The purple grape,--last thing to ripen, late +By very reason of its precious cost. +O Heart, remember, vintages are lost +If grapes do not for freezing night-dews wait. +Think, while thou sunnest thyself in Joy's estate, +Mayhap thou canst not ripen without frost! + + + + +October + + + +The month of carnival of all the year, +When Nature lets the wild earth go its way +And spend whole seasons on a single day. +The spring-time holds her white and purple dear; +October, lavish, flaunts them far and near; +The summer charily her reds doth lay +Like jewels on her costliest array; +October, scornful, burns them on a bier. +The winter hoards his pearls of frost in sign +Of kingdom: whiter pearls than winter knew, +Or Empress wore, in Egypt's ancient line, +October, feasting 'neath her dome of blue, +Drinks at a single draught, slow filtered through +Sunshiny air, as in a tingling wine! + + + + +November + + + +This is the treacherous month when autumn days +With summer's voice come bearing summer's gifts. +Beguiled, the pale down-trodden aster lifts +Her head and blooms again. The soft, warm haze +Makes moist once more the sere and dusty ways, +And, creeping through where dead leaves lie in drifts, +The violet returns. Snow noiseless sifts +Ere night, an icy shroud, which morning's rays +Will idly shine upon and slowly melt, +Too late to bid the violet live again. +The treachery, at last, too late, is plain; +Bare are the places where the sweet flowers dwelt. +What joy sufficient hath November felt? +What profit from the violet's day of pain? + + + + +December + + + +The lakes of ice gleam bluer than the lakes +Of water 'neath the summer sunshine gleamed: +Far fairer than when placidly it streamed, +The brook its frozen architecture makes, +And under bridges white its swift way takes. +Snow comes and goes as messenger who dreamed +Might linger on the road; or one who deemed +His message hostile gently for their sakes +Who listened might reveal it by degrees. +We gird against the cold of winter wind +Our loins now with mighty bands of sleep, +In longest, darkest nights take rest and ease, +And every shortening day, as shadows creep +O'er the brief noontide, fresh surprises find. + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's A Calendar of Sonnets, by Helen Hunt Jackson + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A CALENDAR OF SONNETS *** + +This file should be named calsn10.txt or calsn10.zip +Corrected EDITIONS of our eBooks get a new NUMBER, calsn11.txt +VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, calsn10a.txt + +Produced by Distributed Proofreaders + +Project Gutenberg eBooks are often created from several printed +editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the US +unless a copyright notice is included. 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