James Bird (poet)

thumb| James Bird (10 November 1788 – 26 March 1839) was an English poetical writer and dramatist. Quotes Poetical Memoirs. The Exile (1823) Poetical Memoirs. The Exile, A Tale (London: Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1823) Oh, Woman! Woman! thou art formed to bless    The heart of restless Man, to chase his care, And charm existence by thy loveliness;    Bright as the sun-beam, as the morning fair, If but thy foot fall on a wilderness,    Flowers spring, and shed their roseate blossoms there, Shrouding the thorns that on thy path-way rise, And scattering o'er it hues of Paradise! Thy voice of love is music to the ear,    Soothing and soft, and gentle as the stream That strays 'mid summer flowers; thy glittering tear    Is mutely eloquent; thy smile a beam Of light ineffable, so sweet, so dear,    It wakes the heart from sorrow's darkest dream, Shedding a hallowed lustre o'er our fate, And when it beams we are not desolate! Poetical Memoirs, canto 2, sts. 4–5 External links S. Austin Allibone (ed.) Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson (1876), p. 662 Category:1788 births Category:1839 deaths Category:Poets from England Category:Playwrights from England