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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RECONNAISSANCE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography
First Line: Twere bliss to see one lark
Last Line: As though one flower were not enough, thank god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; God; Larks; Praise; Spring; Skylarks
First Line: Twere bliss to see one lark
Last Line: As though one flower were not enough, thank god!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; God; Larks; Praise; Spring; Skylarks
'Twere bliss to see one lark
Soar to the azure dark
Singing upon his high celestial road.
I have seen many hundreds soar, thank God!
To see one Spring begin
In her first heavenly green,
Were grace unmeet for any mortal clod.
I have seen many Springs begin, thank God!
After the lark the swallow,
Blackbirds in hill and hollow,
Thrushes and nightingales all roads I trod,
As though one bird were not enough, thank God!
Not one flower, but a rout,
All exquisite, are out:
All white and golden every stretch of sod,
As though one flower were not enough, thank God!
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