The blackbird cries for it's mate... they are monogomous and mate for life.... it's a sad poem but very beautiful as far as I can remember...
2006-10-17 10:53:13 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Don't know if this is the one you are looking for:
Joyce Kilmer : To a Blackbird and His Mate Who Died in the Spring
An iron hand has stilled the throats
That throbbed with loud and rhythmic glee
And dammed the flood of silver notes
That drenched the world in melody.
The blosmy apple boughs are yearning
For their wild choristers' returning,
But no swift wings flash through the tree.
Ye that were glad and fleet and strong,
Shall Silence take you in her net?
And shall Death quell that radiant song
Whose echo thrills the meadow yet?
Burst the frail web about you clinging
And charm Death's cruel heart with singing
Till with strange tears his eyes are wet.
The scented morning of the year
Is old and stale now ye are gone.
No friendly songs the children hear
Among the bushes on the lawn.
When babies wander out a-Maying
Will ye, their bards, afar be straying?
Unhymned by you, what is the dawn?
Nay, since ye loved ye cannot die.
Above the stars is set your nest.
Through Heaven's fields ye sing and fly
And in the trees of Heaven rest.
And little children in their dreaming
Shall see your soft black plumage gleaming
And smile, by your clear music blest.
2006-10-17 11:10:43 · answer #1 · answered by solstice 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it "The Blackbird" by Alfred Lord Tennyson written in the early 1830's and published in1842 for the first time. Also Paul McCartney published his poems in a book called "Blackbird Singing" Also "The Red Winged Blackbird " by Kate Watkins Furman, this one is religious. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe RS Thomas has one about a blackbird. 13 ways of looking at a blackbird by Wallace Stevens I THINK I FOUND IT ...TO A BLACKBIRD AND HIS MATE WHO DIED IN THE SPRING by Joyce Kilmer, I found this one on www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry
2006-10-17 18:28:03 · answer #2 · answered by spotted_dog 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like Blackbird Singing by Paul McCartney
(Not the song Blackbird but a poem from his anthology of the same name)
2006-10-17 18:04:14 · answer #3 · answered by John C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blackbird singin' in the dead of night...
Take these broken wings and learn to fly,
All your life. You were only waiting for this moment to arrive.
Blackbird, fly, into the light of the cold black night.
That's the Beatles, not a poem, but it's the only blackbird one I know.
2006-10-17 18:02:57 · answer #4 · answered by orphanannie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
speaking of blackbirds you should read '13 ways of looking a blackbird' by wallace stevens
2006-10-21 09:32:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Presumably you don't mean "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe (1845). Which is a fantastic poem.
2006-10-17 18:07:15 · answer #6 · answered by DGR 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋