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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ODE TO A SINGING BIRDS, SELECTION, by WILLIAM RICHARDSON
First Line: But why for thee this fond complaint?
Last Line: "and oft suppress the rising tear?"
Subject(s): Birds; Melancholy; Dejection
First Line: But why for thee this fond complaint?
Last Line: "and oft suppress the rising tear?"
Subject(s): Birds; Melancholy; Dejection
"But why for thee this fond complaint?
Above thy master thou art blest:
Art thou not free?—Yes: calm Content
With olive sceptre sways thy breast."
"Erewhile when brooding o'er my soul,
Frowned the black demons of Despair,
Did not thy voice that power control,
And oft suppress the rising tear?"
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