“By the Thames in April” Stevie Smith, England (1902-1971)

The water glimmers like a song,

Though barges slow and plod along.

I sat and watched a heron bow—

Not to me, but to the now.

April, you make a child of me,

Soft on the bank, by London’s sea.

From A Poem A Day: United Kingdom, Ireland & Continental Islands

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