Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NIGHTINGALE LANE, by WILLIAM SHARP


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First Line: Down through the thicket, out of the hedges
Last Line: The nightingale singeth under the moon!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Moon; Nightingales; Singing & Singers


Down through the thicket, out of the hedges,
A ripple of music singeth a tune . . .
Like water that falls
From mossy ledges
With a soft low croon:
Soon
It will cease!
No, it falls but to rise -- but to rise -- but to rise!
It is over the thickets, it leaps in the trees,
It swims like a star in the purple-black skies!
Ah, once again,
With its rapture and pain,
The nightingale singeth under the moon!





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