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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ROOKS: NEW COLLEGE GARDENS, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Through rosy cloud, and over thorny towers
Last Line: The scholar's star, the star of sanctity.
Subject(s): Rooks
First Line: Through rosy cloud, and over thorny towers
Last Line: The scholar's star, the star of sanctity.
Subject(s): Rooks
THROUGH rosy cloud, and over thorny towers,
Their wings with all the autumn distance filled,
From Isis' valley border hundred-hilled,
The rooks are crowding home as evening lowers:
Not for men only and their musing hours,
By battled walls did gracious Wykeham build
These dewy spaces early sown and stilled,
These dearest inland melancholy bowers.
Blest birds! A book held open on the knee
Below, is all they know of Adam's blight:
With surer art the while, and simpler rite,
They follow Truth in some monastic tree,
Where breathe against their innocent breasts by night
The scholar's star, the star of sanctity.
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