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REDBIRDS by SARA TEASDALE

Poet Analysis

First Line: REDBIRDS, REDBIRDS
Last Line: ON SAXTON'S HILL?
Subject(s): BIRDS; CARDINALS (BIRDS);
Redbirds, redbirds,
Long and long ago,
What a honey-call you had
In hills I used to know;

Redbud, buckberry,
Wild plum-tree
And proud river sweeping
Southward to the sea,

Brown and gold in the sun
Sparkling far below,
Trailing stately round her bluffs
Where the poplars grow --

Redbirds, redbirds,
Are you singing still
As you sang one May day
On Saxton's Hill?



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