Born on this day – George Marion McClellan:

George Marion McClellan

Writer

September 29, 1860 – May 17, 1934

Credits:

Poems:

A Butterfly In Church; A January Dandelion; A September Night; Dogwood Blossoms; The Feet Of Judas; The Hills Of Sewanee.

Books:

Old Greenbottom Inn and Other Stories (1906); Poems and Storiettes (1895); Songs of a Southerner / aka Poems (1896); The Path of Dreams (1916).

Recommended reading:

Poems by George Marion McClellan

By George Marion McClellan
Published by Legare Street Press.
Published 2022.
Paperback.
ISBN-10: 1016029799
ISBN-13: 978-1016029797
Poetry anthology.

Dogwood Blossoms, poem by George Marion McClellan:

Dogwood Blossoms

Poem by George Marion McClellan.

To dreamy languors and the violet mist
Of early Spring, the deep sequestered vale
Gives first her paling-blue Miamimist,
Where blithely pours the cuckoo’s annual tale
Of Summer promises and tender green,
Of a new life and beauty yet unseen.
The forest trees have yet a sighing mouth,
Where dying winds of March their branches swing,
While upward from the dreamy, sunny South,
A hand invisible leads on the Spring.
His rounds from bloom to bloom the bee begins
With flying song, and cowslip wine he sups,
Where to the warm and passing southern winds,
Azaleas gently swing their yellow cups.
Soon everywhere, with glory through and through,
The fields will spread with every brilliant hue.
But high o’er all the early floral train,
Where softness all the arching sky resumes,
The dogwood dancing to the winds’ refrain,
In stainless glory spreads its snowy blooms.

Recommended reading:

Poems by George Marion McClellan.

Video by Jack Kost.
2025.

Dogwood Blossom photographs by Jack Kost.

Sound effect credit:

Forest wind and birds

by freesound_community

from Pixabay.