Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A DRAGON FLY, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poet's Biography First Line: You hail from dream-land, dragon-fly? Last Line: When you go home to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Dragonflies | ||||||||
YOU hail from Dream-land, Dragon-fly? A stranger hither? so am I. And (sooth to say) I wonder why We either of us came! Are you (that shine so bright i' the air) King Oberon's state-messenger? Come tell me how my old friends fare, Is Dream-land still the same? Who won the latest tourney fight, King Arthur, or the red-cross Knight? Or he who bore away the bright Renown'd Mambrino's casque? Is Caliban king's councillor yet? Cross Mentor jester still and pet? Is Suckling out of love and debt? Has Spenser done his task? Say, have they settled over there, Which is the loveliest Guinevere, Or Gloriana or the fair Young Queen of Oberon's Court? And does Titania torment still Mike Drayton and sweet-throated Will? In sooth of her amours 'twas ill To make such merry sport. Ah, I have been too long away! No doubt I shall return some day, But now I'm lost in love and may Not leave my Lady's sight. Mine is (of course) the happier lot, Yet -- tell them I forget them not, My pretty gay compatriot, When you go home to-night. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DRAGONFLY-MOTHER by DENISE LEVERTOV THE DRAGONFLY by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE DRAGONFLY by HEINRICH HEINE THE DRAGONFLY by HEINRICH HEINE THE DRAGON FLY by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR THE TURN OF A DRAGONFLY'S WING by SIMONIDES OF CEOS THE DRAGONFLY by JOHN BANISTER TABB AN ORCHARD AT AVIGNON by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON |
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