Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | VI. Animate Nature | | The First Blue-Bird | | James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) |
| | | JEST rain and snow! and rain again! | |
| And dribble! drip! and blow! | |
| Then snow! and thaw! and slush! and then— | |
| Some more rain and snow! | |
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| This morning I was ’most afeard | 5 |
| To wake up—when, I jing! | |
| I seen the sun shine out and heerd | |
| The first blue-bird of Spring!— | |
| Mother she ’d raised the winder some;— | |
| And in acrost the orchard come, | 10 |
| Soft as an angel’s wing, | |
| A breezy, treesy, beesy hum, | |
| Too sweet for any thing! | |
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| The winter’s shroud was rent apart— | |
| The sun bust forth in glee,— | 15 |
| And when that blue-bird sung, my hart | |
| Hopped out o’ bed with me! | | | | |
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