Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LINNET, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a linnet courting Last Line: To tender love. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Linnets | ||||||||
I heard a linnet courting His lady in the spring: His mates were idly sporting, Nor stayed to hear him sing His song of love. -- I fear my speech distorting His tender love. The phrases of his pleading Were full of young delight; And she that gave him heeding Interpreted aright His gay, sweet notes, -- So sadly marred in the reading, -- His tender notes. And when he ceased, the hearer Awaited the refrain, Till swiftly perching nearer He sang his song again, His pretty song: -- Would that my verse spake clearer His tender song! Ye happy, airy creatures! That in the merry spring Think not of what misfeatures Or cares the year may bring; But unto love Resign your simple natures, To tender love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BURIAL OF THE LINNET by JULIANA HORATIA GATTY EWING WITH THE LINNETS by CORA RANDALL FABBRI SONG: HEATHER LINTIE by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL THE LINNET by JAMES HEDDERWICK ON THE DEATH OF A LINNET by GEORGE KEATE TO A LINNET IN A CAGE by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE SIR WALTER RALEIGH TO A CAGED LINNET by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON THE LINNET; A FABLE by HELEN LEIGH THE LINNET'S PETITION by MARY DARBY ROBINSON A PASSER-BY by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |
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