To a Storm-Staid Bird

Trembler! a month is past, and thou
Wert singing on the thorn,
And shaking dew-drops from the bough
In the golden haze of morn!

My heart was just as thou, as light—
As loving of the breeze,
That kiss’d thee in its elfin flight,
Through the green acacia trees.

And now the winter snow-flakes lie
All on thy widow’d wing;
Trembler! methinks I hear thee sigh
For the silver days of spring.

But shake thy plume—the world is free
Before thee—warbler, fly!
Blest by a sunbeam and by me,
Bird of my heart! good-bye!