The Humming Bird
A sudden whir of eager sound—And now a something throbs aroundThe flowers that watch the fountain. Look!It touched the rose, the green leaves shook,I think, and yet so lightly tostThat not a spark of dew was lost.Tell me, O Rose, what thing it isThat now appears, now vanishes?Surely it took its fire-green hueFrom daybreaks that it glittered through;Quick, for this sparkle of the dawnGlints through the garden and is gone.What was the message, Rose, what word;Delight foretold, or hope deferred?
A sudden whir of eager sound—And now a something throbs aroundThe flowers that watch the fountain. Look!It touched the rose, the green leaves shook,I think, and yet so lightly tostThat not a spark of dew was lost.Tell me, O Rose, what thing it isThat now appears, now vanishes?Surely it took its fire-green hueFrom daybreaks that it glittered through;Quick, for this sparkle of the dawnGlints through the garden and is gone.What was the message, Rose, what word;Delight foretold, or hope deferred?
A sudden whir of eager sound—And now a something throbs aroundThe flowers that watch the fountain. Look!It touched the rose, the green leaves shook,I think, and yet so lightly tostThat not a spark of dew was lost.
A sudden whir of eager sound—
And now a something throbs around
The flowers that watch the fountain. Look!
It touched the rose, the green leaves shook,
I think, and yet so lightly tost
That not a spark of dew was lost.
Tell me, O Rose, what thing it isThat now appears, now vanishes?Surely it took its fire-green hueFrom daybreaks that it glittered through;Quick, for this sparkle of the dawnGlints through the garden and is gone.
Tell me, O Rose, what thing it is
That now appears, now vanishes?
Surely it took its fire-green hue
From daybreaks that it glittered through;
Quick, for this sparkle of the dawn
Glints through the garden and is gone.
What was the message, Rose, what word;Delight foretold, or hope deferred?
What was the message, Rose, what word;
Delight foretold, or hope deferred?