Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BLUEBIRD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR


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THE BLUEBIRD, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I am so blithe and glad to-day!
Last Line: Full swift the hours lead on to may!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; New Hampshire; Spring


I AM so blithe and glad to-day!
At morn I heard a bluebird sing,
The bluebird, warbling soul of spring,
Herald of all the choirs of May!
And I knew the violets under the tree
Would listen and haste the bird to see,
And the wind-flower lift its rose-veined cup
In the leaves of the old year buried up,
And all the delicate buds that bloom
By the moss-beds, deep in the forest gloom,
Would stir in their slumber, and catch the strain,
And welcome the warm, unfolding rain —
For spring is here when the bluebird sings,
And stays in the maple his glossy wings,
And the blast may blow and the sleet may fall,
But a song of the sun is heard in all.
I am so blithe and glad to-day!
Monadnock still is white with snow;
But when the bluebird sings I know
Full swift the hours lead on to May!





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