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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CUCKOO SONG (FROM THE PERSIAN), by PHILIP GUEDALLA Poet's Biography
First Line: Sumurun's a coming in
Last Line: Loudly sing, cuckoo!
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Oxford University
First Line: Sumurun's a coming in
Last Line: Loudly sing, cuckoo!
Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Oxford University
SUMURUN'S a-coming in:
Loudly sing, cuckoo!
Take a seat, and have a treat,
And sit the evening through:
Sing, cuckoo!
Carpet-seller has a rose,
Where he got it no one knows --
Probably a lady's token:
Not a single word is spoken.
Hunchback has a most entrancing,
Coffee-coloured, always dancing,
Damsel; but she goes away:
Not a single word to say.
Going to a man she loathes,
Wearing very little clothes,
In a litter closely shuttered:
Not a syllable is uttered.
Hunchback follows like a hare,
Extirpates a guilty pair,
Punctuates the aged Sheikh:
Nobody's allowed to speak.
Not a single word is said,
Nearly all the cast is dead;
Let us go away to bed:
Loudly sing, cuckoo!
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