Bell birds
Posted: March 13, 2011 Filed under: Australian wildlife, poetry | Tags: australian birds, Bell Birds, Henry Kendall, Leaves from Australian Forests, poetry, Trove Australia 1 Comment »“…. softer than slumber and sweeter than singing,
the notes of the bell-birds are running and ringing”
Continuing the poetic theme from yesterday, Henry Kendall‘s poem Bell Birds was published in the Sydney Morning Herald on 25 November 1867 two years before the poem was included in Kendall’s Leaves from Australian Forests.
It would be nice to see the original wouldn’t it. If you are interested there is a field recording of bell birds from the Nimbin area at http://soundslikenoise.wordpress.com/
Cheers.