Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO THE BLACKBIRD IN MARCH, by CAMILLA DOYLE First Line: O blackbird, try another tune Last Line: You knew so well, last may and june. Subject(s): Blackbirds | ||||||||
O Blackbird, try another tune You've sung that note for much too long! You knew quite complicated airs Last year, and then you perched among The branches of the flowering pear Where song-birds ought to be, but now You poise upon my chimney-pot As if you really wished to grow Still blacker from the smuts. How can You hope to guard your voice from smoke? And yet I know that some fine day I'll wake, as in the past I woke, To hear that you've remembered all The music of last year Indeed The gifted poets, like yourself, Have chosen smoke and smuts instead Of ease and cleanness, many times Sitting in taverns when they might Have lived at court, grown rich and sleek, And carolled for a king's delight. But all the same, the spring's at hand, So try at least another tune! Begin those gay exciting scales You knew so well, last May and June. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN THE ORCHARD by ANNE STEVENSON THE BIRDS by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKING AT A BLACKBIRD by WALLACE STEVENS THE BLACKBIRD by ALFRED TENNYSON A BLACKBIRD SINGING by RONALD STUART THOMAS THE BLACKBIRD by HUMBERT WOLFE MARSH MUSIC by KENNETH SLADE ALLING A BLACKBIRD SUDDENLY by JOSEPH AUSLANDER A GAME OF BOWLS (WRITTEN DURING AN AIR RAID) by CAMILLA DOYLE |
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