Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE COCK OF THE CHARCOAL BURNER, by ANDRE SALMON Poet's Biography First Line: The thin black cock of the charcoal burner Last Line: Go tell it to the birds. Subject(s): Birds; Roosters; Wings; Cocks | ||||||||
The thin black cock of the charcoal burner His piercing joy has widely sung, With wing soft furled, but stiff spur sterner, High on his heap of fossil dung. Noon is stifled in his haughty crows Under the bells of the factory! You put on tight-fitting clothes Of stinginess refractory. Time is bald; The roses that dizzy Have petals galled. But since once, while the breeze blew, The black cock went "adoodledoo!" Good Francis of Assisi, Go tell it to the birds. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON A COCK AT ROCHESTER by CHARLES SEDLEY THE HEATH-COCK by JOANNA BAILLIE TWO VIEWS OF IT by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH CHICK-A-ROOSTER by HENRY CROCKER THE COCK by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER ROOSTER; TO PAT RYAN by JAMES HARRISON THE COCK AND THE FOX by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE ON RUE SAINT-JACQUES by ANDRE SALMON OVANUNA BELIEVED by ANDRE SALMON ON AN UNFINISHED STATUE BY MICHAEL ANGELO by GEORGE SANTAYANA |
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