Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DOVE'S WEATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography First Line: The day is a dove: she is preening an ashgrey feather Last Line: Under her wings and her eyes, the colour of doves. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Day; Doves | ||||||||
THE day is a dove: she is preening an ash-grey feather: The mountains have plumage of blue as wood-pigeons use. Hark to the choir! the wood-pigeons moaning together Make a soft music hid in the golds and the blues. There's a flash of a rainbow on sea and woods: she is turning In the pale sun her irised bosom and crest. The dew-drenched grass is her mirror; the mist of the morning Shot through with her burnished colours: the glint of her breast. The day is a dove: her wings drop Peace as a raining, Soft drift the orange and gold from the trees as she moves. She broods o'er the world that rests at last uncomplaining, Under her wings and her eyes, the colour of doves. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LETTING THE DOVES OUT by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER THE DOVE'S NECK by GERALD STERN THE DOVE IN SPRING by WALLACE STEVENS WHAT THE DOVE SINGS by CAROL FROST THE DOVE by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR THE PHOENIX AND THE TURTLE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE |
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