The Linnet

Philip M. Raskin 1880 ( Shklov, Russia) – 1944 ( New York)



Have you heard the linnet trilling,
     To discover did you try
What is hidden in her carol—
     Does she sing or does she cry?

I am singing like the linnet,
     When my heart does pine and long;
Love, and pain, and joy, and sorrow,
     All are hidden in my song
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Scheme XAXA XBXB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 261
Words 50
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4

Philip M. Raskin

Raskin was born on December 24, 1880, in Shklov, Russia.[1] After emigrating to England, he worked at the Leeds Health Department. In 1914, he published his first poetry collection, Songs of a Jew, and the following year, he immigrated to the United States. He continued to publish his own poetry, in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish, as well as an anthology of modern Jewish poetry. He died on February 6, 1944, in New York more…

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