<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518859" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Mocking-Bird</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray<br>That o'er the general leafage boldly grew,<br>He summ'd the woods in song; or typic drew<br>The watch of hungry hawks, the lone dismay<br>Of languid doves when long their lovers stray,<br>And all birds' passion-plays that sprinkle dew<br>At morn in brake or bosky avenue.<br>Whate'er birds did or dreamed, this bird could say.<br>Then down he shot, bounced airily along<br>The sward, twitched in a grasshopper, made song<br>Midflight, perched, prinked, and to his art again.<br>Sweet Science, this large riddle read me plain:<br>How may the death of that dull insect be<br>The life of yon trim Shakespeare on the tree?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Sidney+Lanier">Sidney Lanier</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=518859" data-title="The Mocking-Bird de Sidney Lanier" data-description="Superb and sole, upon a plumed spray That o'er the general leafage boldly grew, He summ'd the woods in song; or typic drew The watch of hungry hawks, the lone dismay Of languid doves when long their lovers stray, And all birds' passion-plays that ..."></div> </div> </div>

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