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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DOVE NOTES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography
First Line: The soft, strange note of the doves, to what
Last Line: Like melody heard under water, or music dimmed by a dream.
Subject(s): Doves; Memory; Music & Musicians
First Line: The soft, strange note of the doves, to what
Last Line: Like melody heard under water, or music dimmed by a dream.
Subject(s): Doves; Memory; Music & Musicians
THE soft, strange note of the doves, to what may we liken the sound,
As they flutter high at the eaves or flock for food to the ground?
Their murmurings shy, remote, like a lost year's memory seem,
Like melody heard under water, or music dimmed by a dream.
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