Read the following excerpt from “After the Winter” by Claude McKay.Some day, when trees have shed their leavesAnd against the morning’s whiteThe shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night,We’ll turn our faces southward, love,Toward the summer isleWhere bamboos spire the shafted groveAnd wide-mouthed orchids smile.
Read the following excerpt from “After the Winter” by Claude McKay.And we will build a cottage thereBeside an open glade,With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,And ferns that never fade.
Read the following excerpt from “After the Winter” by Claude McKay.And leaps the laughing crystal rill,And works the droning bee.And we will build a cottage there
Read the following excerpt from “Greece” by Oscar Wilde.The sea was sapphire [colored], and the skyBurned like a heated opal through the air;We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fairFor the blue lands that to the eastward lie.
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