"gräset gror och lövet grönskar"

ur Kalevala

Listening to the Orchard Oriole, 1902

 Childe Hassam  

first green flare

makes 

the air 

quiver 

and dart 

the throat 

ache 

to call 

makes 

the heart 

cheer 

the ear 

keen 

to the sheer 

glorious 

windfall 

of oriole 

veery 

vireo 

                           Sidney Wade

About this poem
"There is that single day, or hour, every year in early spring when the fresh new green leaves are dazzlingly lit from inside. This coincides with the return of the birds. It is ache-making."
-Sidney Wade 

 Orchard Oriole

John James Audubon