Sunday, May 13, 2001

The Poet And The Bird Comments

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Said a people to a poet---' Go out from among us straightway!
While we are thinking earthly things, thou singest of divine.
There's a little fair brown nightingale, who, sitting in the gateways
Makes fitter music to our ears than any song of thine!'
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Bokey 19 June 2021

What did the poet do to offend the people?

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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