Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WILD BIRD, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poet's Biography First Line: Wild bird with frightened eyes Last Line: Wild bird with frightened eyes? Subject(s): Birds | ||||||||
Wild bird with frightened eyes, Wild bird with beating wing, Save in the lonely skies Have you no song to sing? Wild bird, the open air Is but a crystal cell; Song cannot tarry there Nor any echoes dwell. Wild bird with fluttered heart, Wild bird with silent throat, What calls you far apart Where cloud and star-dust float? Wild bird, each cloud, sun-bright, Is mirrored in your eyes, And there the stars of night In flaming ranks arise! Wild bird with throbbing breast, Wild bird in ceaseless flight, Is yours an endless quest Beyond all human sight? Wild bird, I know a tree So tall and straight and fair, Where every leaf swings free To pilgrims of the air! And this I know, wild bird: Each living, leafy gate Will open at a word, -- Must that word always wait? Within that verdant tree There is a boundless land Which they alone may see Who enter hand in hand. And some find freedom there Vaster than all your skies. When shall we greatly dare, -- Wild bird with frightened eyes? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GLIMPSES OF THE BIRDS by JOHN HOLLANDER GLIMPSES OF THE BIRDS by JOHN HOLLANDER AUDUBON EXAMINES A BITTERN by ANDREW HUDGINS DISPATCHES FROM DEVEREUX SLOUGH by MARK JARMAN A COUNTRY LIFE by RANDALL JARRELL CANADIAN WARBLER by GALWAY KINNELL YELLOW BIRD by KENNETH SLADE ALLING THE CRIPPLE by KARLE WILSON BAKER FACES by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER |
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