Psyche, and other poems — page 200: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page 182: Poetry on Spring (1802) This is a text page from what appears to be a literary collection or miscellany, not a typical penny dreadful. It contains a poem titled "Verses Written at the Commencement of Spring.—1802." The four-stanza poem addresses spring's return, invoking natural images: soft gales and forgotten breath, tender leaves and eglantine, a bright hyacinth, and a blackbird's song. The speaker expresses nostalgia, contrasting spring's renewal with lost joy and hopes "that now are over." The tone is melancholic rather than sensational—reflective rather than lurid. The typography and aged paper suggest an early nineteenth-century publication date.