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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: 14. RING-DOVE SONG, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poet's Biography
First Line: Softly I sing you, sweet
Last Line: Sweet.
Subject(s): Doves
First Line: Softly I sing you, sweet
Last Line: Sweet.
Subject(s): Doves
SOFTLY I sing you, sweet,
Songs of the swaying tops,
Darkly green of the fir-trees,
Airily light of the beeches.
Here in the twittering frondage
Sweetly the scent of larch-bloom
Over me sweeps in a tide,
Breaks on this emerald shore.
Softly the branches wave,
Soft as I sing to you,
Sweet.
Other Poems of Interest...
THE TURTLE DOVES by PHILIP AYRES
LETTING THE DOVES OUT by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER
THE DOVE'S NECK by GERALD STERN
THE DOVE IN SPRING by WALLACE STEVENS
WHAT THE DOVE SINGS by CAROL FROST
THE DOVE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR