Summer Poems: The Oven Bird by Robert Frost

poetry — Gary R. Hess @ 2:52 pm on Jul 25, 1979

There is a singer everyone has heard,
Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
He says the early petal-fall is past
When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
On sunny days a moment overcast;
And [...]


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