Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LYRE OF SPRING, by JANET HAMILTON Poet's Biography First Line: Song in the forest is ringing Last Line: "repeats your ""wood notes wild." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Spring | ||||||||
SONG in the forest is ringing, Song in the woodlands wild; Songnot the song of the maiden. Not of the joyous child. Is it the musical fairies Singing in copse and dell? Thrilling the air with melody, Witching with tuneful spell. 'Tis the sweet breath of Spring that wakes Her lyre of thousand strings, Pouring the warbling song of love From every bird that sings. A medley sweet of varied strains, A chorus full and clear, Rings out from thicket, brake, and bush, To woodland ramblers dear. I hear thy song, sweet bird of dawn, Hailing the lonely star That twinkles on the brow of morn, Through dewy clouds afar. I hear the blackbird's piping notes, The thrush's mellow lay; Her song the first to wake the woods, The last at gloamin' grey. The linnet trills her sweetest notes Upon the wild rose spray; The cuckoo's tell-tale note I hear, Now near, now far away. In warbling ecstasy of song, A thousand feather'd throats Pour out in full melodious flow Their gushing, joyous notes. Oh, wilding woods! oh, songsters sweet! Beloved of nature's child; The glades, the glens, where echo still Repeats your "wood notes wild." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SPRING LEMONADE by TONY HOAGLAND A SPRING SONG by LYMAN WHITNEY ALLEN SPRING'S RETURN by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD ODE TO SPRING by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD SPRING FLOODS by MAURICE BARING SPRING IN WINTER by CHARLOTTE FISKE BATES SPRING ON THE PRAIRIE by HERBERT BATES THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD A BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE by JANET HAMILTON |
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