Nature

Bird Raptures

by Christina Rossetti 1830–1894

From The Prince's Progress and Other Poems (1866; 1875 additions)

Nature

The sunrise wakes the lark to sing,
The moonrise wakes the nightingale.
Come darkness, moonrise, every thing
That is so silent, sweet, and pale:
Come, so ye wake the nightingale.

Make haste to mount, thou wistful moon,
Make haste to wake the nightingale:
Let silence set the world in tune
To hearken to that wordless tale
Which warbles from the nightingale

O herald skylark, stay thy flight
One moment, for a nightingale
Floods us with sorrow and delight.
To-morrow thou shalt hoist the sail;
Leave us to-night the nightingale.

MLA

Rossetti, Christina. “Bird Raptures.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/377/.

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Rossetti, Christina. “Bird Raptures.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/rossetti_c/377/.

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