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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SIGHT AND SOUND, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a handful of white stars
Last Line: "that blue-bird's ""lover, lover, lover!"
Subject(s): Colors
First Line: I saw a handful of white stars
Last Line: "that blue-bird's ""lover, lover, lover!"
Subject(s): Colors
I saw a handful of white stars,
Blooming in a width of grass,
I saw a cherry tree, snow-white,
In woods as naked cold as glass.
I saw a blue leaf zig-zag down --
The blue-bird with his russet throat!
From out the sallow cane-break stole
Another blue-bird's aching note.
The blue, the white, I wrote them down
To soothe my heart when spring was over.
No need or help, alas, to write
That blue-bird's "Lover, lover, lover!"
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