Somewhere afield here something lies
In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust
That moved a poet to prophecies -
A pinch of unseen, unguarded dust
The dust of the lark that Shelley heard,
And made immortal through times to be; -
Though it only lived like another bird,
And knew not its immortality.
Lived its meek life; then, one day, fell -
A little ball of feather and bone;
And how it perished, when piped farewell,
And where it wastes, are alike unknown.
Maybe it rests in the loam I view,
Maybe it throbs in a myrtle's green,
Maybe it sleeps in the coming hue
Of a grape on the slopes of yon inland scene.
Go find it, faeries, go and find
That tiny pinch of priceless dust,
And bring a casket silver-lined,
And framed of gold that gems encrust;
And we will lay it safe therein,
And consecrate it to endless time;
For it inspired a bard to win
Ecstatic heights in thought and rhyme.
Notes
(The neighbourhood of Leghorn: March, 1887)
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A fitting tribute to an incredible poem and an outstanding poet. My attempt to emulate him reads so listless and crude that I have half a mind to consign it to dustbin.
krishna -
This poem by Thomas Hardy so eloquently immortalizes "Shelley's Skylark." The climb and thrill of a Skylark's ascent and the moment of descent into darkness and death all upheld in Hardy's stirring poem. ***Ivy Rose
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This poem by Thomas Hardy so eloquently immortalizes "Shelley's Skylark." The climb and thrill of a Skylark's ascent and the moment of desent into darkness and death all upeld in Hardy's stirring poem. ***Ivy Rose
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