WANDERING at morn, Emerging from the night from gloomy thoughts, thee in my thoughts, Yearning for thee harmonious Union! thee, singing bird divine! Thee coil'd in evil times my country, with craft and black dismay,with every meanness, treason thrus This common marvel I beheld''"the parent thrush I watch'd feeding its young, The singing thrush whose tones of joy and faith ecstatic, Fail not to certify and cheer my soul. There ponder'd, felt I, If worms, snakes, loathsome grubs, may to sweet spiritual songs be turn'd, If vermin so transposed, so used and bless'd may be, Then may I trust in you, your fortunes, days, my country; Who knows but these may be the lessons fit for you? From these your future song may rise with joyous trills, Destin'd to fill the world. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GHOSTS OF THE OLD YEAR by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON THE BOBOLINKS by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH EASTER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES A FIT OF RHYME AGAINST RHYME [OR, RIME] by BEN JONSON THE TWO APRIL MORNINGS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH LINES by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS |