Robert Frost

The Oven Bird
> There is a singer everyone has heard,
> Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird,
> Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again.
> He says that leaves are old and that for flowers
> Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten.
> He says the early petal-fall is past
> When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers
> On sunny days a moment overcast;
> And comes that other fall we name the fall.
> He says the highway dust is over all.
> The bird would cease and be as other birds
> But that he knows in singing not to sing.
> The question that he frames in all but words
> Is what to make of a diminished thing.
>
> This poem is another sonnet. Sonnets often reflect
on the passage of time.

Robert Frost cartoon in the New Yorker at:

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> > Robert Frost for kids:
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> See an oven bird
> http://museum.gov.ns.ca/mnh/
nature/nsbirds/bns0337.htm