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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SCARLET TANAGER, by MARY AUGUSTA MASON First Line: A flame went flitting through the wood Last Line: A thousand tanagers will glow. Subject(s): Tanagers | |||
A FLAME went flitting through the wood; The neighboring birds all understood Here was a marvel of their kind; And silent was each feathered throat To catch the brilliant stranger's note, And folded every songster's wing To hide its sober coloring. Against the tender green outlined, He bore himself with splendid ease, As though alone among the trees. The glory passed from bough to bough -- The maple was in blossom now, And then the oak, remembering The crimson hint it gave in spring, And every tree its branches swayed And offered its inviting shade; Where'er a bough detained him long, A slender, silver thread of song Was lightly, merrily unspun. From early morn till day was done The vision fitted to and fro. At last the wood was all alone; But, ere the restless flame had flown, He left a secret with each bough, And in the Fall, where one is now, A thousand tanagers will glow. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TANAGER by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN TO A SCARLET TANAGER by GLENN WARD DRESBACH NEW TANAGER / NEW SONG by JACQUELINE OSHEROW MY LITTLE NEIGHBOR by MARY AUGUSTA MASON THE BIRDS by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS SONNET: TO HIS LUTE by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN IN TENEBRIS: 2 by THOMAS HARDY EPITAPH INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY by ALEXANDER POPE |
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