Humming-Bird
Padraic Colum 1881 (County Longford) – 1972 (Enfield)
UP from the navel of the world,
Where Cuzco has her founts of fire,
The passer of the Gulf he comes.
He lives in air, a bird of fire,
Charted by flowers still he comes
Through spaces that are half the world.
With glows of suns and seas he comes;
A life within our shadowed world
That's bloom, and gem, and kiss of fire!
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABC BCA CAB |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 319 |
Words | 66 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3 |
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