Rondeau by Jessie Redmon Fauset

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend April 19, 2014   Rondeau   Jessie Redmon Fauset

When April's here and meadows wide Once more with spring's sweet growths are pied     I close each book, drop each pursuit,     And past the brook, no longer mute, I joyous roam the countryside.   Look, here the violets shy abide And there the mating robins hide—     How keen my sense, how acute,       When April's here!   And list! down where the shimmering tide Hard by that farthest hill doth glide,     Rise faint strains from shepherd's flute,     Pan's pipes and Berecyntian lute. Each sight, each sound fresh joys provide       When April's here.              Today's poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   Jessie Redmon Fauset’s poem “Rondeau,” was first published in the April 1912 issue of The Crisis, a magazine founded by W. E. B. Du Bois to be the premier crusading voice for civil rights.   Jessie Redmon Fauset, an American editor, poet, essayist, and novelist, was born in Camden County, New Jersey, in 1882. Fauset, an editor of the NAACP magazine The Crisis, published four novels and numerous poems and short stories before her death in 1961. Work by Fauset   There Is Confusion (Northeastern University Press, 1989) "April" by James Schuyler "Sonnet" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson "The Garden Year" by Sara Coleridge Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit poets.org   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038