Wednesday 23 March 2011

Hope is the thing with feathers























Another painting of a Nuthatch (based on one I found on the internet) and a poem 'Hope is the thing with feathers' by Emily Dickinson. It is part of a longer poem called 'Life'

Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

Emily Dickinson

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