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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON SOME HUMMING-BIRDS IN A GLASS CASE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: For vacant song behold a shining theme
Last Line: No soil, nor token of the tomb's disgrace!
Subject(s): Hummingbirds
First Line: For vacant song behold a shining theme
Last Line: No soil, nor token of the tomb's disgrace!
Subject(s): Hummingbirds
For vacant song behold a shining theme!
These dumb-struck flutterers from Indian land,
The colour on whose crests, sweet Nature's hand,
Fulfils our richest thought of crimson gleam;
Whose wings, thus spread and balanced forth, might seem
Slender as serpent's tongue or fairy's wand --
And, as with vantage of the sun we stand,
Each glossy bosom kindles in his beam;
Ah me! how soon does human death impair
The tender beauty of the fairest face,
Whatever balms and unguents we prepare!
While these replendent creatures bear no trace,
Bright-bosom'd and bright-crested as they are,
No soil, nor token of the tomb's disgrace!
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