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Poem by Katharine Lee Bates


Pigeon Post


White wing, white wing,
Lily of the air,
What word dost bring,
On whose errand fare?

Red word, red word,
Snowy plumes abhor.
I, Christ's own bird,
Do the work of war.



Katharine Lee Bates


Katharine Lee Bates's other poems:
  1. Children of the War
  2. A Mountain Storm
  3. Furness Abbey
  4. Tamlane
  5. America to England


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