Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MISSING, by ESTHER BARSTOW HAMMAND First Line: The thrush who owns my cottonwood Last Line: At spring's glad reveille. Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes | ||||||||
The thrush who owns my cottonwood Did not come back this year. I wake at dawn and listen for A song I do not hear. The robin and the gold-finch, The catbird and the wren, The swallow and the woodpecker Have all come back again; But the lordling of the bird-bath With proud and courtly mien; The thrush who owns my cottonwood Is nowhere to be seen. I wonder if he found somewhere A finer tree than mine; Or if some rival tempted him On richer crumbs to dine; Or if, somewhere in Dixie land Beneath a tulip tree, He went to sleep and did not wake At spring's glad reveille. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 1. by BASIL BUNTING THE THRUSH'S NEST by JOHN CLARE THE DARKLING THRUSH by THOMAS HARDY WHAT THE THRUSH SAID by JOHN KEATS THE BROWN THRUSH by LUCY LARCOM SONGS OUT OF SORROW: WOOD SONG by SARA TEASDALE THE WOOD THRUSH by SUSAN SHARP ADAMS A MIGRANT THRUSH by MARY RUSSELL BARTLETT THE MUSIC-LESSON by MATHILDE BLIND |
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