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THE YELLOWBIRD by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

Poet Analysis

First Line: HEY! MY LITTLE YELLOWBIRD
Last Line: PIPPIN ON THE TREE.
Subject(s): BIRDS; GARDENS & GARDENING; TREES;

HEY! my little Yellowbird,
What you doing there?
Like a flashing sun-ray,
Flitting everywhere:
Dangling down the tall weeds
And the hollyhocks,
And the lordly sunflowers
Along the garden-walks.

Ho! my gallant Golden-bill,
Pecking 'mongst the weeds,
You must have for breakfast
Golden flower-seeds:
Won't you tell a little fellow
What you have for @3tea?@1 --
'Spect a peck o' yellow, mellow
Pippin on the tree.



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