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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY BIRDEEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poet's Biography
First Line: On bonnie birdeen
Last Line: My passion, my pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Loss; Love; Pain; Passion; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery
First Line: On bonnie birdeen
Last Line: My passion, my pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Loss; Love; Pain; Passion; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery
On bonnie birdeen,
Sweet-bird of my heart—
Tell me, my dear one,
How shall we part?
He calls me, he cries
Who is father to thee:
O birdeen, his eyes
In these blue eyes I see.
Thou art wrought of our love,
Of our joy that was slain:
My birdeen, my dove,
My passion, my pain.
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