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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE DEAD THRUSH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poet's Biography
First Line: Love of nest and mate and young
Last Line: Melt in rhapsodies of rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Thrushes
First Line: Love of nest and mate and young
Last Line: Melt in rhapsodies of rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Birds; Death - Animals; Thrushes
Love of nest and mate and young
Woke the music of his tongue,
While upon the fledgling's brain
Soft it fell as scattered grain,
There to blossom tone for tone
Into echoes of his own.
Doth the passion wholly die
When the fountainhead is dry?
Nay, as vapor from the sea
Lives the dream eternally;
Soon the silent clouds again
Melt in rhapsodies of rain.
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