Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ECHOES OF SPRING: 6, by MATHILDE BLIND


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ECHOES OF SPRING: 6, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, birds, winged voices! Children of the light!
Last Line: Ye, with the sunlight, range o'er land and main.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spring


Oh, birds, winged voices! children of the light!
Whose song is love, whose love is melody;
Shedding o'er hedge, and field, and bush, and tree,
Your tuneful joy and musical delight,

Making the air, the earth, the heavens bright;
Melodious, tender, sad and gay and free;
By all these gifts true poets born are ye;
Love circumscribes alone your restless flight.

Poets, I say? Ah, not like poets here,
That wander forth alone, companionless;
Whose lays are wrung from them by care and pain;
Who sing, while blinded by the hot salt tear.

Not such are ye; but free from all distress,
Ye, with the sunlight, range o'er land and main.






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