Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE BLUEBIRD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poet's Biography First Line: I am so blithe and glad to-day! Last Line: Full swift the hours lead on to may! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; New Hampshire; Spring | ||||||||
I AM so blithe and glad to-day! At morn I heard a bluebird sing, The bluebird, warbling soul of spring, Herald of all the choirs of May! And I knew the violets under the tree Would listen and haste the bird to see, And the wind-flower lift its rose-veined cup In the leaves of the old year buried up, And all the delicate buds that bloom By the moss-beds, deep in the forest gloom, Would stir in their slumber, and catch the strain, And welcome the warm, unfolding rain For spring is here when the bluebird sings, And stays in the maple his glossy wings, And the blast may blow and the sleet may fall, But a song of the sun is heard in all. I am so blithe and glad to-day! Monadnock still is white with snow; But when the bluebird sings I know Full swift the hours lead on to May! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD COLUMBUS DYING [MAY 20, 1506] by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR SA-CA-GA-WE-A; THE INDIAN GIRL WHO GUIDED LEWIS AND CLARK by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR |
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