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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ONE DEAD, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: A blackbird singing
Last Line: And the sorrow for me.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness
First Line: A blackbird singing
Last Line: And the sorrow for me.
Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness
A BLACKBIRD singing
On a moss upholstered stone,
Bluebells swinging,
Shadows wildly blown,
A song in the wood,
A ship on the sea.
The song was for you
And the ship was for me.
A blackbird singing
I hear in my troubled mind,
Bluebells swinging
I see in a distant wind.
But sorrow and silence
Are the wood's threnody,
The silence for you
And the sorrow for me.
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