Classic and Contemporary Poetry
INGRATITUDE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four bluish eggs all in the moss! Last Line: Never a heart could break! Subject(s): Ingratitude; Ungratefulness | ||||||||
FOUR bluish eggs all in the moss! Soft-lined home on the cherry-bough! Life is trouble, and love is loss-- There's only one robin now. O robin up in the cherry-tree, Singing your soul away, Great is the grief befallen me, And how can you be so gay? Long ago when you cried in the nest, The last of the sickly brood, Scarcely a pinfeather warming your breast, Who was it brought you food? Who said, "Music, come fill his throat, Or ever the May be fled"? Who was it loved the low sweet note And the bosom's sea-shell red? Who said, "Cherries, grow ripe and big, Black and ripe for this bird of mine"? How little bright-bosom bends the twig, Sipping the black-heart's wine! Now that my days and nights are woe, Now that I weep for love's dear sake -- There you go singing away as though Never a heart could break! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...INGRATITUDE by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES INGRATITUDE by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON THE JOURNEY AND OBSERVATIONS OF A COUNTRYMAN: A DEATHBED by JOHN HAWTHORN THE STAFF AND THE SCRIP by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SONNET: INGRATITUDE by ANNA SEWARD ON BRUTUS, AN ODE: HEAVY GOING by JOHN SHEFFIELD FRANCISCA DILIGENTE; MAY TO AUGUST, 1906 by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL AFTER THE RAIN by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ALPINE PICTURE by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH AN ODE ON THE UNVEILING OF THE SHAW MEMORIA BOSTON COMMON, MAY 31, 1897 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH |
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