Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet blackbird is silenced with chaffinch and thrush Last Line: Till he sings us the very best song that he can. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Winter | ||||||||
SWEET blackbird is silenced with chaffinch and thrush, Only waistcoated robin still chirps in the bush: Soft sun-loving swallows have mustered in force, And winged to the spice-teeming southlands their course. Plump housekeeper dormouse has tucked himself neat, Just a brown ball in moss with a morsel to eat: Armed hedgehog has huddled him into the hedge, While frogs scarce miss freezing deep down in the sedge. Soft swallows have left us alone in the lurch, But robin sits whistling to us from his perch: If I were red robin, I'd pipe you a tune Would make you despise all the beauties of June. But, since that cannot be, let us draw round the fire, Munch chesnuts, tell stories, and stir the blaze higher: We'll comfort pinched robin with crumbs, little man, Till he sings us the very best song that he can. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOOKING EAST IN THE WINTER by JOHN HOLLANDER WINTER DISTANCES by FANNY HOWE WINTER FORECAST by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN AT WINTER'S EDGE by JUDY JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE IT IS FINISHED' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ITALIA, IO TI SALUTO!' by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (2) by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI |
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