1<poem> 2<author>Rupert Brooke</author> 3<date>1912</date> 4<title>Song</title> 5<stanza> 6<line>And suddenly the wind comes soft,</line> 7<line>And Spring is here again;</line> 8<line>And the hawthorn quickens with buds of green</line> 9<line>And my heart with buds of pain.</line> 10</stanza> 11<stanza> 12<line>My heart all Winter lay so numb,</line> 13<line>The earth so dead and frore,</line> 14<line>That I never thought the Spring would come again</line> 15<line>Or my heart wake any more.</line> 16</stanza> 17<stanza> 18<line>But Winter's broken and earth has woken,</line> 19<line>And the small birds cry again;</line> 20<line>And the hawthorn hedge puts forth its buds,</line> 21<line>And my heart puts forth its pain.</line> 22</stanza> 23</poem> 24 25