Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, BEAUTY AND THE BIRD, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI


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First Line: She fluted with her mouth as when one sips
Last Line: Of inner voices praise her golden head.
Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante
Subject(s): Bullfinches; Country Life


SHE fluted with her mouth as when one sips,
And gently waved her golden head, inclin'd
Outside his cage close to the window-blind;
Till her fond bird, with little turns and dips,
Piped low to her of sweet companionships.
And when he made an end, some seed took she
And fed him from her tongue, which rosily
Peeped as a piercing bud between her lips.

And like the child in Chaucer, on whose tongue
The Blessed Mary laid, when he was dead,
A grain,--who straightway praised her name in song:
Even so, when she, a little lightly red,
Now turned on me and laughed, I heard the throng
Of inner voices praise her golden head.





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