Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LITTLE BROWN BIRD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography First Line: O little brown bird in the rain Last Line: In the bend of your wing! Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Wings | ||||||||
O LITTLE brown bird in the rain, In the sweet rain of spring, How you carry the youth of the world In the bend of your wing! For you the long day is for song And the night is for sleep With never a sunrise too soon Or a midnight too deep! For you every pool is the sky, Breaking clouds chasing through, A heaven so instant and near That you bathe in its blue! And yours is the freedom to rise To some song-haunted star Or sink on soft wing to the wood Where your brown nestlings are. So busy, so strong and so glad, So care-free and young, So tingling with life to be lived And with songs to be sung, O little brown bird!with your heart That's the heart of the Spring How you carry the hope of the world In the bend of your wing! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ESTATE SALE: THE SCRABBLE GAME OF A DEAD WOMAN by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE FREED FROM ANOTHER CONTEXT by ELEANOR WILNER THE BIRD IN THE LAUREL'S SONG by ELEANOR WILNER THE LITERAL = THE ABSTRACT: A DEMONSTRATION by ELEANOR WILNER A CHRISTMAS CHILD by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY |
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