A Bird Song by Christina Rossetti

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend April 20, 2014   A Bird Song   Christina Rossetti

It’s a year almost that I have not seen her: Oh, last summer green things were greener, Brambles fewer, the blue sky bluer. It’s surely summer, for there’s a swallow: Come one swallow, his mate will follow, The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken. Oh happy swallow whose mate will follow O’er height, o’er hollow! I’d be a swallow, To build this weather one nest together.              Today's poem is in the public domain. About This Poem   “A Bird Song” by Christina Rossetti was first published in Scribner’s Monthly in January, 1873.   Christina Rossetti was born in London, England, in 1830. Rossetti is best known for her ballads and her mystic religious lyrics. She published six collections of poetry before her death in 1894. Poetry by Rossetti   The Complete Poems (Penguin Classics, 2001) "Spring" by Gerard Manley Hopkins "After dark vapors have oppress'd our plains" by John Keats "Magdalen Walks" by Oscar Wilde Poem-a-Day   Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-a-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit poets.org   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038