Who's that dusty stranger? -- What's he doing here? -- That city-bred bird with the ill-bred leer? -- Perching on branches like telegraph wires? -- Chirping his slang above passionate fires? -- Poking his head about, twitching his tail? -- Getting drunk in our pools as though they were ale? -- Never accepting, but stealing our rations? -- Acting toward us as he would to relations? -- Who asked him hither, what led him this way? -- With his critical carping, his mockery, eh? -- And worse than all these, he's a jerky reminder Of winters, towns, and people no kinder. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOAN OF ARC IN RHEIMS by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS GOD'S GRANDEUR by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS PALINGENESIS by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE PASSIONATE MAN'S PILGRIMAGE by WALTER RALEIGH ON THE 'VITA NUOVA' OF DANTE by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |