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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TAMPA ROBINS, by SIDNEY LANIER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The robin laughed in the orange tree Last Line: Tampa, florida, 1877. Subject(s): Robins | |||
THE robin laughed in the orange-tree: "Ho, windy North, a fig for thee: While breasts are red and wings are bold And green trees wave us globes of gold, Time's scythe shall reap but bliss for me -- Sunlight, song, and the orange-tree. Burn, golden globes in leafy sky, My orange-planets: crimson I Will shine and shoot among the spheres (Blithe meteor that no mortal fears) And thrid the heavenly orange-tree With orbits bright of minstrelsy. If that I hate wild winter's spite -- The gibbet trees, the world in white, The sky but gray wind over a grave -- Why should I ache, the season's slave? I'll sing from the top of the orange-tree Gramercy, winter's tyranny. I'll south with the sun, and keep my clime; My wing is king of the summer-time; My breast to the sun his torch shall hold; And I'll call down through the green and gold Time, take thy scythe, reap bliss for me, Bestir thee under the orange-tree." TAMPA, FLORIDA, 1877. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ROBIN IN JANUARY by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING OWL AGAINST ROBIN by SIDNEY LANIER HUMAN, AVIAN, VEGETABLE, BLOOD by KENNETH REXROTH THE BROWN VEST by BARBARA GUEST A ROBIN by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE ROBIN REDBREAST by GEORGE WASHINGTON DOANE ROBIN REDBREAST by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ A BIRTHDAY SONG by SIDNEY LANIER |
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