Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK, by ALFRED NOYES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If souls could sing to heaven's high king Last Line: Te deum! Te deum laudamus! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Earth; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; World | ||||||||
I. IF souls could sing to heaven's high King As blackbirds pipe on earth, How those delicious courts would ring With gusts of lovely mirth! What white-robed throng could lift a song So mellow with righteous glee As this brown bird that all day long Delights my hawthorn tree. Hark! That's the thrush With speckled breast From yon white bush Chaunting his best, Te Deum! Te Deum laudamus! II. If earthly dreams be touched with gleams Of Paradisal air, Some wings, perchance, of earth may glance Around our slumbers there; Some breaths of may might drift our way With scents of leaf and loam, Some whistling bird at dawn be heard From those old woods of home. Hark! That's the thrush With speckled breast From yon white bush Chaunting his best, Te Deum! Te Deum laudamus! III. No King or priest shall mar my feast Where'er my soul may range. I have no fear of heaven's good cheer Unless our Master change. But when death's night is dying away, If I might choose my bliss, My love should say, at break of day, With her first waking kiss: -- Hark! That's the thrush With speckled breast, From yon white bush Chaunting his best, Te Deum! Te Deum laudamus! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BROKEN BALANCE by ROBINSON JEFFERS SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS GEOMETAPHYSICS by MARGARET AVISON NIAGARA by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS SOPHISTICATION by CONRAD AIKEN I SEE CHILE IN MY REARVIEW MIRROR by AGHA SHAHID ALI WASHING OUR HANDS OF THE REST OF AMERICA by MARVIN BELL THE EARTH IS A LIVING THING by LUCILLE CLIFTON MOUNTAIN LAUREL by ALFRED NOYES |
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