WHEN up aloft I fly and fly, I see in pools The shining sky, And a happy bird Am I, am I! When I descend Towards their brink I stand, and look, And stoop, and drink, And bathe my wings, And chink and prink. When winter frost Makes earth as steel I search and search But find no meal, And most unhappy Then I feel. But when it lasts, And snows still fall, I get to feel No grief at all, For I turn to a cold stiff Feathery ball! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HISTORY OF A LIFE by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER DRIFTING by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ SONNET: 116 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE SATIRE: 6 by AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS PINE TREES by MAXWELL BODENHEIM THE CURFEW CHIMES by VARNUM LANSING COLLINS CHARTIST SONG by THOMAS COOPER |