Birds

Once I Saw a Little Bird

Once I saw a little bird

going hop, hop, hop.

And I said , “Little bird,

will you stop, stop, stop?”

I was going to the window

to say, “How do you do?”

But he shook his little tail

and away he flew.

~~ Anonymous

But for a woodpecker
Tapping at a post, no sound
At all in the house
— Matsuo Basho

Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss;
No bird is singing now, and if there is,
Be it my loss.

It will be long ere the marshes resume,
It will be long ere the earliest bird:
So close the windows and not hear the wind,
But see all wind-stirred.

— Robert Frost