Sing for the sun your lyric, lark,
Of twice ten thousand notes;
Sing for the moon, you nightingales,
Whose light shall kiss your throats;
Sing, sparrows, for the soft warm rain,
To wet your feathers through;
And when a rainbow's in the sky,
Sing you, cuckoo - Cuckoo!
Sing for your five blue eggs, fond thrush,
By many a leaf concealed;
You starlings, wrens, and blackbirds, sing
In every wood and field:
While I, who fail to give my love
Long raptures twice as fine,
Will for her beauty breathe this one -
A sigh, that's more divine.
Raptures
William Henry Davies
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Poem topics: I love you, beauty, kiss, light, lyric, moon, rain, rainbow, sky, sun, blue, field, long, warm, divine, soft, breathe, love, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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