Glycine's Song

By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1772-1834


A SUNNY shaft did I behold,
         From sky to earth it slanted:
And poised therein a bird so bold--
         Sweet bird, thou wert enchanted!

He sank, he rose, he twinkled, he troll'd
         Within that shaft of sunny mist;
His eyes of fire, his beak of gold,
         All else of amethyst!

And thus he sang: 'Adieu! adieu!
Love's dreams prove seldom true.
The blossoms, they make no delay:
The sparking dew-drops will not stay.
         Sweet month of May,
         We must away;
         Far, far away!
         To-day! to-day!'

DayPoems Poem No. 507
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