Nature
Moonlight Song of the Mocking-Bird
From An American Anthology (1900)
Nature
Each golden note of music greets
The listening leaves, divinely stirred,
As if the vanished soul of Keats
Had found its new birth in a bird.
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MLA
Hayne, William Hamilton. “Moonlight Song of the Mocking-Bird.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hayne_wh/3/.
Chicago
Hayne, William Hamilton. “Moonlight Song of the Mocking-Bird.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hayne_wh/3/.
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