Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI First Line: A poet wrote a song - a tender lay Last Line: She sang it throughit was the nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales | ||||||||
A POET wrote a songa tender lay Of Life that dies, and Love that ne'er is dead. "Life is the setting, Love the jewel," he said; And then he tossed it carelessly away. A south wind passing, heard it softly say: "O save me! save me from this cold, hard bed!" And caught it up, and soaring with it, fled Up, up into the cloudlets dim and gray, Then down again, and laid it on a tree. A little, plain, brown bird came flying by, Sighing: "Ah, Fate has been most harsh to me, I cannot charm the ear or please the eye!" She found the song, and in the moonlight pale She sang it throughit was the nightingale! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SONG OF THE NIGHTINGALE IS LIKE THE SCENT OF SYRINGA by MINA LOY THE NIGHTINGALE IN BADELUNDA by TOMAS TRANSTROMER THE NIGHTINGALE by PAUL VERLAINE ODE, FR. THE PASSIONATE PILGRIM by RICHARD BARNFIELD NIGHTINGALES by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES BIANCA AMONG THE NIGHTINGALES by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING THE NIGHTINGALE; A CONVERSATION POEM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A PORTRAIT by CORA RANDALL FABBRI |
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