L'Oiseau Des Bois by Marie Van Vorst
In a green and still wood, the speaker hears a bird sing music of extraordinary sweetness. The song seems pure, fresh, and filled with the joy of life and first-awakened love. Beside the speaker is a beloved whose words mingle with the bird’s heavenly harmonies, lifting both music and love beyond ordinary physical sensation. Through this night’s experience, the speaker feels for the first time the true soul of song and of Love.
By Marie Van Vorst · First published 1921 · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Nature Poetry · 123 words
First lines
Last night I heard in the wood green and still, / The sweetest music sung by any bird. / I never knew the soul of song, until / Last night I heard.
Pure as life's morning, warm as love first stirred, / Fresh it outpoured our close attent to fill. / Dearest, you were beside me, and your word / Did through the heavenly harmonies distil / The spirit's joy: and grosser sense was blurred. / I never knew the soul of Love, until -- / Last night I heard!
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Marie Van Vorst
- Date: 1921 CE
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Love Poetry, Nature Poetry, Romantic Poetry, Spiritual Poetry
- Length: 123 words
- Structure: 1 section, 2 paragraphs
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Genres
- Lyric Poetry — The work is a short, highly musical poem centered on a concentrated emotional and sensory experience.
- Love Poetry — The speaker connects the bird's song with the beloved's presence and presents the moment as a revelation of love's spiritual depth.
- Nature Poetry — Its setting and central image are a quiet wood and the transcendent song of a bird.
- Romantic Poetry — The poem privileges intense feeling, natural beauty, idealized love, and an encounter with the sublime.
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French literature · novel · fiction · romance · drama · society · love · relationships · psychological fiction · character study · early twentieth century · European setting