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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG, by FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS First Line: A bird in my bower Last Line: "-- ""gone." | |||
A BIRD in my bower Sat calling, a-calling; A bird answered low from the garden afar. His note came with power, While falling, a-falling, Her note quivered faint as the light of a star. "I am Life! I am Life!" From the bower a-ringing, Trilled forth a mad melody, soaring above; "I am Love! I am Love!" From the garden a-singing, Came soft as a dream, and the echoes sang "Love." They joined, and together Fast flying, a-flying, Were lost to my gaze in the arch of the sky. The wind through the heather Is sighing, a-sighing; Ah! how should it ever do other than sigh? Where art thou, where art thou, Life, flying, a-flying? Where art thou, O Love, sweetest child of the dawn? The song in the meadow Is dying, a-dying; My heart groweth heavy, and whispereth -- "Gone." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELECTRA by FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS TO WALT WHITMAN by FRANCIS HOWARD WILLIAMS ADELAIDE AND JOHN WILKES BOOTH by EDGAR LEE MASTERS LINES WRITTEN IN KENSINGTON GARDENS by MATTHEW ARNOLD ON THE RHINE by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES MEZZO CAMMIN by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW MONNA INNOMINATA, A SONNET OF SONNETS: 10 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI ALEC YEATON'S SON; GLOUCESTER, AUGUST, 1720 by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH PHANTOM OF LIFE by VIOLET MCKAY BALL THE TROPHY GUNS by LEVI BISHOP NIGHT BLOSSOMING by JANICE BLANCHARD TO MR. D'URFEY, UPON HIS INCOMPARABLE BALLADS CALL'D BY HIM LYRIC ODES by THOMAS (TOM) BROWN |
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