"An Adieu" by Florence Earle Coates

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Sorrow, quit me for a while!     Wintry days are over; Hope again, with April smile,     Violets sows and clover.   Pleasure follows in her path,     Love itself flies after, And the brook a music hath     Sweet as childhood's laughter.   Not a bird upon the bough     Can repress its rapture, Not a bud that blossoms now     But doth beauty capture.   Sorrow, thou art Winter's mate,     Spring cannot regret thee; Yet, ah, yet—my friend of late—     I shall not forget thee!            This poem is in the public domain. Published in Poem-a-Day on April 28, by the Academy of American Poets. About This Poem   "An Adieu" was published in the July 1913 issue of Harper's.   Florence Earle Coates was born on July 1, 1850, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Pro Patria (Philadelphia, 1917) and The Unconquered Air (Houghton Mifflin, 1912). A former poet laureate of Pennsylvania, she died on April 6, 1927, in Philadelphia. Poetry by Coates   The Unconquered Air (Forgotten Books, 2019) "After the Winter" by Claude McKay "Monadnock in Early Spring" by Amy Lowell "Sonnet" by Alice Dunbar-Nelson April Guest Editor: Tracy K. Smith   Thanks to Tracy K. Smith, poet laureate of the United States and author of Wade in the Water (Graywolf Press, 2019), who curated Poem-a-Day for this month's weekdays. Read a Q&A with Smith about her curatorial approach this month and find out more about our guest editors for the year. 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