Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN EARLY BLUEBIRD, by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON Poet's Biography First Line: Leap to the highest height of spring Last Line: The hope that floods thy throat! Alternate Author Name(s): Thompson, Maurice | ||||||||
LEAP to the highest height of spring, And trill thy sweetest note, Bird of the heavenly plumes and twinkling wing And silver-toned throat! Sing, while the maple's deepest root Thrills with a pulse of fire That lights its buds. Blow, blow thy tender flute, Thy reed of rich desire! Breathe in thy syrinx Freedom's breath, Quaver the fresh and true, Dispel this lingering wintry mist of death And charm the world anew! Thou first sky-dipped spring-bud of song, Whose heavenly ecstasy Foretells the May while yet March winds are strong, Fresh faith appears with thee! How sweet, how magically rich, Through filmy splendor blown, Thy hopeful voice set to the promise-pitch Of melody yet unknown! O land of mine (where hope can grow And send a deeper root With every spring), hear, heed the free bird blow Hope's charmed flute! Ah! who will hear, and who will care, And who will heed thy song, As prophecy, as hope, as promise rare, Budding to bloom ere long? From swelling bulbs and sprouting seed, Sweet sap and fragrant dew, And human hearts, grown doubly warm at need, Leaps answer strong and true: We see, we hear (thou liberty-loving thing, That down spring winds doth float), The promise of thine empyrean wing, The hope that floods thy throat! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A CREOLE SLAVE-SONG by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON A FLIGHT SHOT by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON ON A FLYLEAF OF THEOCRITUS by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON THE LION'S CUB by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON WILD HONEY by JAMES MAURICE THOMPSON THE TWO SAYINGS by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE HARVEST by EVA K. ANGLESBURG THE POOR FARMER'S OFFERING by APOLLONIDES AUTUMN; WRITTEN IN THE GROUNDS OF MARTIN COLE, ESQ. by BERNARD BARTON INTERLUDE by MAXWELL BODENHEIM |
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