Many a flower have I seen blossom,
Many a bird for me will sing.
Never heard I so sweet a singer,
Never saw I so fair a thing.
She is a bird, a bird that blossoms,
She is a flower, a flower that sings;
And I a flower when I behold her,
And when I hear her, I have wings.
More verses by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
- To Memory
- Affection
- Where A Roman Villa Stood, Above Freiburg
- The Twins
- 'My True Love Hath My Heart And I Have His'