Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LYRE OF SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON


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THE LYRE OF SPRING, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Song in the forest is ringing
Last Line: "repeats your ""wood notes wild."
Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Spring


SONG in the forest is ringing,
Song in the woodlands wild;
Song—not the song of the maiden.
Not of the joyous child.

Is it the musical fairies
Singing in copse and dell?
Thrilling the air with melody,
Witching with tuneful spell.

'Tis the sweet breath of Spring that wakes
Her lyre of thousand strings,
Pouring the warbling song of love
From every bird that sings.

A medley sweet of varied strains,
A chorus full and clear,
Rings out from thicket, brake, and bush,
To woodland ramblers dear.

I hear thy song, sweet bird of dawn,
Hailing the lonely star
That twinkles on the brow of morn,
Through dewy clouds afar.

I hear the blackbird's piping notes,
The thrush's mellow lay;
Her song the first to wake the woods,
The last at gloamin' grey.

The linnet trills her sweetest notes
Upon the wild rose spray;
The cuckoo's tell-tale note I hear,
Now near, now far away.

In warbling ecstasy of song,
A thousand feather'd throats
Pour out in full melodious flow
Their gushing, joyous notes.

Oh, wilding woods! oh, songsters sweet!
Beloved of nature's child;
The glades, the glens, where echo still
Repeats your "wood notes wild."





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