Florida: Essays and Poems
by FCIT
Tampa Robins
by Sidney Lanier
Additional Information
- Year Published: 1891
- Language: English
- Country of Origin: United States of America
- Source: Ward, W.H. (Ed.). (1891). The Poetry of Sidney Lanier.
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Readability:
- Flesch–Kincaid Level: 6.2
- Word Count: 183
- Genre: Poetry
- Keywords: bird, florida
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The robin laughed in the orange-tree:
“Ho, windy North, a fig for thee:
While breasts are red and wings are bold
And green trees wave us globes of gold,
Time’s scythe shall reap but bliss for me
— Sunlight, song, and the orange-tree.
Burn, golden globes in leafy sky,
My orange-planets: crimson I
Will shine and shoot among the spheres
(Blithe meteor that no mortal fears)
And thrid the heavenly orange-tree
With orbits bright of minstrelsy.
If that I hate wild winter’s spite —
The gibbet trees, the world in white,
The sky but gray wind over a grave —
Why should I ache, the season’s slave?
I’ll sing from the top of the orange-tree
`Gramercy, winter’s tyranny.’
I’ll south with the sun, and keep my clime;
My wing is king of the summer-time;
My breast to the sun his torch shall hold;
And I’ll call down through the green and gold
`Time, take thy scythe, reap bliss for me,
Bestir thee under the orange-tree.’”