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A poem by Hilda Conkling

Humming-Bird

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Title:     Humming-Bird
Author: Hilda Conkling [More Titles by Conkling]

Why do you stand on the air
And no sun shining?
How can you hold yourself so still
On raindrops sliding?
They change and fall, they are not steady,
But you do not know they are gone.
Is there a silver wire
I cannot see?
Is the wind your perch?
Raindrops slide down your little shoulders . . .
They do not wet you:
I think you are not real
In your green feathers!
You are not a humming-bird at all
Standing on air above the garden!
I dreamed you the way I dream fairies,
Or the flower I lost yesterday!





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Hilda Conkling's poem: Humming-Bird

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