The Blue Bird is a partsong composed by Charles Villiers Stanford in 1910.
It is set to the words of L'Oiseau Bleu, a poem by Mary Elizabeth Coleridge, which depicts a bluebird in flight over a lake.
"The Blue Bird" uses harmonic, rhythmic and other elements of the music to depict the imagery of the poem. he soprano part plays an important role in illustrating the blue bird itself.
