Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WEBS, by MARY SINTON LEITCH


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First Line: I weave a web of song to snare
Last Line: Will flash a word, a song, a wing.
Subject(s): Insects; Spiders; Weaving & Weavers; Bugs


I weave a web of song to snare
A mood -- the memory of a spray
Of foam-flower, blossoms of the pear,
I hold within a roundelay

A word of love, a robin's note,
A seamew's cry -- lest I forget --
I capture from a throbbing throat
And prison in a triolet.

Or some sweet sorrow that has been
Too prone to fade, like leaves that fall,
I keep inviolate within
The meshes of a madrigal.

In sadder years when I misdoubt
The beauty I was wont to sing,
I'll open wide my web, and out
Will flash a word, a song, a wing.





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