| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | The Untimely Singer | | By Obadiah Cyrus Auringer (1849–1937) |
| | | A BIRD with azure breast and beak of gold, | |
| A joyous stranger, beautiful and shy, | |
| Flown from far groves beneath a summer sky, | |
| At morn amid our March woods bare and cold | |
| Sang like a spirit. Raptures such as hold | 5 |
| The arches charmed, and hush the zephyr’s sigh, | |
| From his enamored throat flowed carelessly | |
| In musical low warblings manifold. | |
| At length he ceased, with arch head bent aside, | |
| And listened long! but from the woodlands bare | 10 |
| No cheering voice of melody replied,— | |
| Only a faint call from the fields of air; | |
| Swiftly he rose, and as the echo died | |
| Fled to the open heavens, and warbled there. | | | | |
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