Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LESBIA, by JAMES STEPHENS Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet / and delicate / and rare Last Line: -- at the end of the bough! Subject(s): Flight; Flying | ||||||||
Sweet, And delicate, And rare, At the end Of a wind-blown fragrant bough, The apple swings! If I, Who fly no more, Had wings! Or if My wizardry Knew how! I'd wing To where that sweetness swings, -- At the end of the bough! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOMETHING CHILDISH, BUT VERY NATURAL; WRITTEN IN GERMANY by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE NIGHT SONG OF THE PERSONAL SHADOW by GYORGY PETRI THE HAWAIIAN FLIGHT SQUADRON by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN INSPIRATION by GRACE HOLBROOK BLOOD MONHEGAN GULLS by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON |
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