Nature

The Sick Man and the Nightingale (From Lenau)

by Amy Levy 1861–1889

From A Minor Poet, and Other Verse

Nature

So late, and yet a nightingale?
Long since have dropp’d the blossoms pale,
The summer fields are ripening,
And yet a sound of spring?

O tell me, didst thou come to hear,
Sweet Spring, that I should die this year;
And call’st across from the far shore
To me one greeting more?

MLA

Levy, Amy. “The Sick Man and the Nightingale (From Lenau).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/levy/16/.

Chicago

Levy, Amy. “The Sick Man and the Nightingale (From Lenau).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/levy/16/.

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