O blithe new-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice:
O Cuckoo! Shall I call thee bird,
Or but a wandering voice?


'To the Cuckoo' (1807)


O blithe new-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice: O Cuckoo! Shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

O blithe new-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice: O Cuckoo! Shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

O blithe new-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice: O Cuckoo! Shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?

O blithe new-comer! I have heard, I hear thee and rejoice: O Cuckoo! Shall I call thee bird, Or but a wandering voice?