Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ROBERT BURNS WILSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY



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First Line: What intuition named thee?
Last Line: Than any joy of all the glory there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Daisies; Flowers; Happiness; Soul; Joy; Delight


WHAT intuition named thee? --
Through what thrill
Of the awed soul came the command divine
Into the mother-heart, foretelling thine
Should palpitate with his whose raptures will
Sing on while daisies bloom and lavrocks trill
Their undulating ways up through the fine
Fair mists of heavenly reaches? Thy pure line
Falls as the dew of anthems, quiring still
The sweeter since the Scottish singer raised
His voice therein, and, quit of every stress
Of earthly ache and longing and despair,
Knew certainly each simple thing he praised
Was no less worthy, for its lowliness,
Than any joy of all the glory There.





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