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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
L'OISEAU BLEU (AFTER CHARLES CONDER), by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poet's Biography First Line: A parting golden haze Last Line: The bird drops home. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds | |||
A PARTING golden haze Reveals a lime-girt place Of garden-alleys still That wonders fill -- Fruit-feasting while the slow Fountain-rain laps below Cold-dreaming naiades' Long green-grey knees -- Great hats and low ripe hair; Sacque-bosoms almost bare; Silk skirts soft-puffed and wide, Drooping beside -- Small faces, hesitant, pale -- Gowns -- trees -- all tremulous, frail; Faint violet, faint green, Faint rose scarce-seen. Where is this gathering's Dance-consort of slim strings? In it I long to play The viola Tuned to the undertone Of water plashing down Deep marble honey-dull Of ripples full. Mid bergomask or fain Impossible pavane The blue bird of romance Floats o'er the dance. A madam elegant, A dandy figurant In vain the bird pursue (As I do too); Yet it is near, so near, This land fantastic, dear (Where none but one can come) The bird drops home. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!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 THE BLUEBIRD by JOHN BURROUGHS THE BLUEBIRD by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE BLUE BIRD by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN |
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