506. I Told You by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
b"Ella Wheeler Wilcox read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\n I Told You \\nby Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850 \\u2013 1919)\\n\\nI told you the winter would go, love,\\nI told you the winter would go.\\nThat he'd flee in shame when the south wind came,\\nAnd you smiled when I told you so.\\nYou said the blustering fellow\\nWould never yield to a breeze,\\nThat his cold, icy breath had frozen to death\\nThe flowers, and birds, and trees.\\n\\nAnd I told you the snow would melt, love,\\nIn the passionate glance o' the sun;\\nAnd the leaves o' the trees, and the flowers and bees,\\nWould come back again, one by one.\\nThat the great, gray clouds would vanish,\\nAnd the sky turn tender and blue;\\nAnd the sweet birds would sing, and talk of the spring,\\nAnd, love, it has all come true.\\n\\nI told you that sorrow would fade, love,\\nAnd you would forget half your pain;\\nThat the sweet bird of song would waken ere long,\\nAnd sing in your bosom again;\\nThat hope would creep out of the shadows,\\nAnd back to its nest in your heart,\\nAnd gladness would come, and find its old home,\\nAnd that sorrow at length would depart.\\n\\nI told you that grief seldom killed, love,\\nThough the heart might seem dead for awhile,\\nBut the world is so bright, and so full of warm light\\nThat 'twould waken at length, in its smile.\\nAh, love! was I not a true prophet?\\nThere's a sweet happy smile on your face;\\nYour sadness has flown - the snow-drift is gone,\\nAnd the buttercups bloom in its place.\\n\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 27 Dec 2007\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009"