Glycine's Song
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
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/507.html">Glycine's Song by Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
Timothy Bovee, editor
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