Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SWALLOWS, by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN Poet's Biography First Line: Calm nature's idle spy, I follow Last Line: Of alien streams I may not sip. Subject(s): Nature; Poetry & Poets | ||||||||
Calm Nature's idle spy, I follow In joy her pathways; free and fond, I watch the arrow-winged swift swallow Who curves above the dusking pond. It dashes forward, lightly skimming The glassy surface, half in fear Of alien clutching watersdimming The lightning wings before they veer. And once again the same quick daring, And once again the same dark stream.... Is not this flight our human faring? Is not this urge our human dream? Thus I, frail vessel, am forbidden To take the foreign road, and dip To scoop a drop; the ways are hidden Of alien streams I may not sip. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ENVY OF OTHER PEOPLE'S POEMS by ROBERT HASS THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AS A SONG by ROBERT HASS THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN OXOTA: A SHORT RUSSIAN NOVEL: CHAPTER 192 by LYN HEJINIAN LET ME TELL YOU WHAT A POEM BRINGS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA JUNE JOURNALS 6/25/88 by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA FOLLOW ROZEWICZ by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA HAVING INTENDED TO MERELY PICK ON AN OIL COMPANY, THE POEM GOES AWRY by HICOK. BOB THE AERIAL CITY by AFANASY FET SHENSHIN WHY I LOVE HER by ALEXANDER BROME THE WILLIAM P. FRYE [FEBRUARY 28, 1915] by JEANNE ROBERT FOSTER |
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