Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE MOCKING-BIRD, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poet's Biography First Line: It has a strange wild note - that mocking-bird Last Line: How he does sing, and scream, and mock us all. Subject(s): Mockingbirds | ||||||||
IT has a strange wild note -- that Mocking-bird, I've heard him whistle to the passer by, And scold like any parrot. Now his note Mounts to the play-ground of the lark-- high up, Quite to the sky. And then again it falls, As a lost star falls, down into the marsh, The veriest puddle -- but it stops not thus; 'T will croak like any bull-frog, or 't will squeal Like an old rat, caught tight in the toothed spring Of man's humane contrivancy --and then Rejoicing, mock the trap, and yell out "cheese." So mock we all, and so we imitate The good a little, and the bad a deal. The notes of heaven, of earth, sometimes of hell Are on our tongue-tips. Hear the little wretch, How he does sing, and scream, and mock us all. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO OUR MOCKING-BIRD; DIED OF A CAT, MAY, 1878 by SIDNEY LANIER MOCKING BIRDS by KENNETH REXROTH MOCKINGBIRD MONTH by MONA VAN DUYN PATRIOTIC TOUR AND POSTULATE OF JOY by ROBERT PENN WARREN THE MOCKING BIRD by SIDNEY LANIER THE MOCKING-BIRD by FRANK LEBBY STANTON TO THE MOCKINGBIRD by RICHARD HENRY WILDE TO A FRIEND by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD |
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