Its speaker notes "soon that toil shall end, soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest" while discussing the title figure, who, is weary since "all day thy wings have fann'd at that far height."
This poem's title figure is seen at "the plashy brink of weedy lake, or marge of river wide" and "where the rocking billows rise and sink on the chafed ocean side." "The abyss of heaven" swallowed up the form of this work's addressee, who is guided by God "from zone to zone" through the "boundless sky." Its speaker notes "soon that toil shall end, soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest" while discussing the title figure, who, is weary since "all day thy wings have fann'd at that far height." The question "Far, through their rosy depths, dost thou pursue Thy solitary way?" appears in, for 10 points, what poem by William Cullen Bryant that is addressed to a bird?
This poem's title figure is seen at "the plashy brink of weedy lake, or marge of river wide" and "where the rocking billows rise and sink on the chafed ocean side."
"To a Waterfowl"