A triolet
’Tis the first day of Spring!
The catkins are a-bloom,
The bluebirds are a-wing,
’Tis the first day of Spring!
Faint scents the breezes bring;
Man’s thoughts new shape assume.
’Tis the first day of Spring,
The catkins are a-bloom!
Credit
From Drifting Flowers of the Sea and Other Poems (1904) by Sadakichi Hartmann. This poem is in the public domain.
Author
Sadakichi Hartmann
Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, born in the late 1860s in Japan, was a dramatist, fiction writer, and art critic. His poetry collections include Naked Ghosts: Four Poems (Fantasia, 1925), Tanka and Haiku: 14 Japanese Rhythms (G. Bruno, 1915), and My Rubaiyat (Mangan, 1913). He died in November 1944.
Date Published
01/01/1904