Nature
A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk
From The Troubadour and Poetical Sketches of Modern Pictures (1825)
Nature
AY, screen thy favourite dove, fair child,
Ay, screen it if you may, —
Yet I misdoubt thy trembling hand
Will scare the hawk away.
That dove will die, that child will weep, —
Is this their destinie?
Ever amid the sweets of life
Some evil thing must be.
Ay, moralise, — is it not thus
We've mourn'd our hope and love?
Alas! there's tears for every eye,
A hawk for every dove!
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MLA
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.). “A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landon_le/40/.
Chicago
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.). “A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landon_le/40/.
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