Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HERMIT THRUSH, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY First Line: Only through grace of keats have I yet heard Last Line: In that song-shaken air! Subject(s): Birds; Thrushes | ||||||||
THE HERMIT THRUSH Only through grace of Keats have I yet heard The nightingale in gardens by the sea; Only in Shelley's echo caught the note Of sunlight from the skylark's throat Poured over vineyard hills of Italy! But once with senses quickened into pain, I heard in summer dusk of fir and pine Among Sierran heights made holy ground The hermit thrush, a forest Israfel, Flood all the mountain round With music half of earth and half divine. I needed then no nightingale to tell His sorrow to the hidden ear of night No lark to be the herald of the light. For in that song were summed all golden birds, All poets' golden words... All love and pain, all passion and all prayer Were gathered there On that Sierran height, In that song-shaken air! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SECOND BOOK OF ODES: 1. by BASIL BUNTING THE THRUSH'S NEST by JOHN CLARE THE DARKLING THRUSH by THOMAS HARDY WHAT THE THRUSH SAID by JOHN KEATS THE BROWN THRUSH by LUCY LARCOM SONGS OUT OF SORROW: WOOD SONG by SARA TEASDALE THE WOOD THRUSH by SUSAN SHARP ADAMS A MIGRANT THRUSH by MARY RUSSELL BARTLETT THE MUSIC-LESSON by MATHILDE BLIND AFTER WHISTLER by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY SIOUX SONGS: A FLYING HORSE (THE SPOTTED HORSE) by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY |
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