Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BLUEBIRD, by WILLIAM P. ALEXANDER First Line: One bird I know, that haunts the blissful / scene Last Line: A benediction, when the bluebird sings! Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Spring | ||||||||
ONE bird I know, that haunts the blissful scene Where idling Spring renews her lavish wiles, And stores her gold, and countless tints of green To come with emerald step, and gracious smiles Some glad fresh morn:but ah! my bird before Her train, with full, and strong impatient wing, Will bear the tidings to my very door, And I shall hear, deep stirred with wondering! My bird has caught the gentian-hue of skies That over-arched those orient isles he found; Has cloaked himself in such becoming guise, And touched his breast to musk rose teeming ground; He learned the low, sweet cadence of the wind That touched with unseen lip the golden reed, And in his warble audibly entwined The lingering lilt of zephyrs on the mead. When March is harsh, and blustering bends the bough Of leafless tree, with young buds still asleep, All unawares, some morning, and somehow, I know again my sluggish blood will leap, When on my ear the old familiar strain Will fall, and I shall catch a flash of blue, And know the gates of Paradise again Have open swung, and let my bluebird through. For after him will come the myriad throng Of varied joys, that lead to perfect June, The upland glades, and vales a-ring with song And meadows with a mantling bloom bestrewn, But oh! the gentle warble, first to steal Into our ear, gives joy no other brings. For winter-weary, every heart must feel A benediction, when the bluebird sings! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD EVERYBODY KNOWS by DAVID IGNATOW |
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