April Showers

[Citrus]

April Showers


Life is not a highway strewn with flowers,
Still it holds a goodly share of bliss,
When the sun gives way to April showers,
Here is the point you should never miss.



Though April showers may come your way,
They bring the flowers that bloom in May.
So if it's raining,
have no regrets,
Because it isn't raining rain, you know,
It's raining violets.



And where you see clouds upon the hills,
You soon will see crowds of daffodils,
So keep on looking for a blue bird,
And list'ning for his song,
Whenever April showers come along.


written by B.G. Desylva and L. Silvers

[aouniat]

Thank you very much. It is a beautiful poem. It reminded me of a nice poem by William Wordsworth, in which he depicts natue in a similar vivid way:

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced, but they
Out-did the sparkling leaves in glee;
A poet could not be but gay,
In such a jocund company!
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

P.S. The English used in the poem is not the modern English, but a version used in the 18th century.

List of Vocabulary Items
1- o'er = over
2- vales = valleys
3- gay = cheerful
4- oft = often

[Citrus]

Salam Alekom
thanks for traveling through magic words (poetry)
thanks for the presence
regards