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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHTINGALES, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye came Last Line: Welcome the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales | |||
BEAUTIFUL must be the mountains whence ye came, And bright in the fruitful valleys the streams, wherefrom Ye learn your song: Where are those starry woods? O might I wander there, Among the flowers, which in that heavenly air Bloom the year long! Nay, barren are those mountains and spent the streams: Our song is the voice of desire, that haunts our dreams, A throe of the heart, Whose pining visions dim, forbidden hopes profound, No dying cadence nor long sigh can sound, For all our art. Alone, aloud in the raptured ear of men We pour our dark nocturnal secret; and then, As night is withdrawn From these sweet-springing meads and bursting boughs of May, Dream, while the innumerable choir of day Welcome the dawn. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE IS LIKE THE SCENT OF SYRINGA by MINA LOY THE NIGHTINGALE IN BADELUNDA by TOMAS TRANSTROMER THE NIGHTINGALE by PAUL VERLAINE ODE, FR. THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM by RICHARD BARNFIELD BIANCA AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE NIGHTINGALE; A CONVERSATION POEM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GLOW-WORM by WILLIAM COWPER A PASSER-BY by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES |
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