Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LOWER BOUGH, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poet's Biography First Line: Rest on the lower bough Last Line: Within the light. Subject(s): Ambition | ||||||||
Rest on the lower bough, Whose wings are frail, Nor seek the riotous tops Lashed by the gale. Let not ambition tempt To flutter where The eagle's iron wing May scarcely dare. All native to the sward And leafy shade, Thy slender treble fills The quiet glade. But in the upper gale Thy little sound Were like a rose-leaf reft And blown around, Or in the solitude Of height on height, The flickering of a spark Within the light. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A RHYME OUT OF MOTLEY by AMY LOWELL PENCIL STUB JOURNALS: ON AN EXALTED NONENTITY by JOHN CIARDI THERE ARE ROUGHLY ZONES by ROBERT FROST SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ALBERT SCHIRDING by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE ARCHITECT (2) by KAREN SWENSON WATERING THE HORSE by ROBERT BLY FAILING AND FLYING by JACK GILBERT A FABLE FOR LYDIA by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN |
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