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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BLACKBIRD, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: He comes on chosen evenings
Last Line: Those are celestial chimney-pots.
Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds
First Line: He comes on chosen evenings
Last Line: Those are celestial chimney-pots.
Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds
HE comes on chosen evenings,
My blackbird bountiful, and sings
Over the gardens of the town
Just at the hour the sun goes down.
His flight across the chimneys thick,
By some divine arithmetic,
Comes to his customary stack,
And couches there his plumage black,
And there he lifts his yellow bill,
Kindled against the sunset, till
These suburbs are like Dymock woods
Where music has her solitudes,
And while he mocks the winter's wrong
Rapt on his pinnacle of song,
Figured above our garden plots
Those are celestial chimney-pots.
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