Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SOARING, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY


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First Line: My heart is a bird to-night
Last Line: Make shudder the trees, lean and bare!
Subject(s): Hearts; Stars; Trees


My heart is a bird to-night
That streams on the washed, icy air.
My heart is a bird to-night
'Twixt the stars and the branches bare.

My heart is abroad to-night
Rushed on by the fierce, crystal air.
No nest will it seek to-night
In the branches, ice-brittle and bare.

Wide-winged my heart to-night
With joy on the surge of the air.
What matter that spirits of night
Make shudder the trees, lean and bare!





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