On the Spring
Details
Type: Index
Record number: INDEX/BCMSV/1114 (Lt 15 )
Title: On the Spring
Author: Drummond, William; of Hawthornden
Date(s): 1623 (published)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/99069
Description
Notes: (New doth the)
First lines: New doth the sun appear
The mountain's snows decay
Last lines: & there att that immortal sun's bright rays
Deck thee with flowrs which fear not rage of days
Length: 11
Verse form: 1 stanza, ababccbddee
Contents: Apparently urging a friend, in time of Spring, to abandon his spiritual
winter and think of the springtime of Heaven