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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BLUEBIRD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet's Biography
First Line: Before you thought of spring, / except as a surmise
Last Line: But his seraphic self!
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds
First Line: Before you thought of spring, / except as a surmise
Last Line: But his seraphic self!
Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds
Before you thought of spring,
Except as a surmise,
You see, God bless his suddenness,
A fellow in the skies
Of independent hues,
A little weather-worn,
Inspiriting habiliments
Of indigo and brown.
With specimens of song,
As if for you to choose,
Discretion in the interval,
With gay delays he goes
To some superior tree
Without a single leaf,
And shouts for joy to nobody
But his seraphic self!
Other Poems of Interest...
THE LAST WORD OF A BLUEBIRD; AS TOLD TO A CHILD by ROBERT FROST
THE FIRST BLUEBIRD by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
THE BLUEBIRD by WILLIAM P. ALEXANDER
THE BLUE BIRD by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA
ADVICE TO A BLUE-BIRD by MAXWELL BODENHEIM
L'OISEAU BLEU (AFTER CHARLES CONDER) by GORDON BOTTOMLEY
THE BLUEBIRD by JOHN BURROUGHS
THE BLUEBIRD by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON