I KNOW a falcon swift and peerless As e'er was cradled in the pine; No bird had ever eye so fearless, Or wing so strong as this of mine. The winds not better love to pilot A cloud with molten gold o'errun, Than him, a little burning islet, A star above the coming sun. For with a lark's heart he doth tower, By a glorious upward instinct drawn; No bee nestles deeper in the flower Than he in the bursting rose of dawn. No harmless dove, no bird that singeth, Shudders to see him overhead; The rush of his fierce swooping bringeth To innocent hearts no thrill of dread. Let fraud and wrong and baseness shiver, For still between them and the sky The falcon Truth hangs poised forever And marks them with his vengeful eye. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GOLDEN GLOW by ABUL HASAN OF SEVILLE TWILIGHT SYMPHONY by LESLIE ANDERSON SONNET: 17 by RICHARD BARNFIELD A POSTSCRIPT by BERNARD BARTON EARLY VENEZIAN DETAIL by GORDON BOTTOMLEY HEART-SONG by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE SONG. THESE PRAIRIES by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT EPIGRAM ON A CAPTAIN GROSE by ROBERT BURNS EPIGRAM ON THE BRAZIERS' COMPANY HAVING RESOLVED by GEORGE GORDON BYRON |