Written in March by William Wordsworth
Wordsworth read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n---------------------------------------------\n\n Written in March\nby William Wordsworth (1770 \u2013 1850)\n\nThe Cock is crowing,\nThe stream is flowing,\nThe small birds twitter,\nThe lake doth glitter\n The green field sleeps in the sun;\nThe oldest and youngest\nAre at work with the strongest;\nThe cattle are grazing,\nTheir heads never raising;\n There are forty feeding like one!\n\nLike an army defeated\nThe snow hath retreated,\nAnd now doth fare ill\nOn the top of the bare hill;\n The plowboy is whooping \u2013 anon \u2013 anon \nThere\u2019s joy in the mountains;\nThere\u2019s life in the fountains;\nSmall clouds are sailing,\nBlue sky prevailing;\n The rain is over and gone!