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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BIRD SET FREE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: No marvel, sweet, you clap your wings
Last Line: Who hungers too!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
First Line: No marvel, sweet, you clap your wings
Last Line: Who hungers too!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
'No marvel, Sweet, you clap your wings
In hunger for the open sky;
I see your pretty flutterings,
Will let you fly.
'But O, when in some shady grot
You preen your breast in noonday's blue,
Be not your Susan quite forgot,
Who hungers too!'
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