Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ELEGIAC SONNET: 3. TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor melancholy bird - that all night long Last Line: To sigh, and sing at liberty -- like thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales | ||||||||
Poor melancholy bird -- that all night long Tell'st to the Moon thy tale of tender woe; From what sad cause can such sweet sorrow flow, And whence this mournful melody of song? Thy poet's musing fancy would translate What mean the sounds that swell thy little breast, When still at dewy eve thou leavest thy nest, Thus to the listening night to sing thy fate. Pale Sorrow's victims wert thou once among, Tho' now released in woodlands wild to rove? Say -- hast thou felt from friends some cruel wrong, Or died'st thou -- martyr of disastrous love? Ah! songstress sad! that such my lot might be, To sigh, and sing at liberty -- like thee! | 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 ELEGIAC SONNET: 2. WRITTEN AT THE CLOSE OF SPRING by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 4. TO THE MOON by CHARLOTTE SMITH ELEGIAC SONNET: 44. WRITTEN IN THE CHURCH YARD AT MIDDLETON IN SUSSEX by CHARLOTTE SMITH |
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