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Bohemian legends and other poems/Violets Bloom in Spring

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Josef Václav Sládek2964417Bohemian legends and other poems — ⁠ Violets Bloom in Spring1896Flora Pauline Wilson Kopta

VIOLETS BLOOM IN SPRING.

The violets flower in spring,
And the heath in autumn gray.
Too late to love to-morrow,
If you have not loved to-day.
The world is full of maidens,
Like poppies, blooming free.
If one of them was mine,
How happy I would be!

I’d give her half my homestead,
And many a silver dime,
But roses prick the bachelor,
That would pluck them out of time.
For violets flower in spring,
And the heath in autumn gray;
I mocked the girls in my youth,
They laugh at me to-day.