Inexorably bound As my hope launching high To shatter there lost In fury and silence, Voice strange to the grove Or by no echo trailed, The bird in life never Another time heard. The eerie musician, Leaving in doubt If from my breast not his The wilder sob broke out, Goes torn asunder away On some path to stay! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LARK ASCENDING by GEORGE MEREDITH THE GENERAL by SIEGFRIED SASSOON THE BALLAD OF ORISKANY by OBADIAH CYRUS AURINGER THE HWOMESTEAD by WILLIAM BARNES THE LOST COLORS by MARY A. BARR AFTER-SIGHT by WILLIAM ROSE BENET THE DREAMING MAN by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH BALLAD TO THE TUNE - 'I'LL DO BY THEE AS NE'ER WAS DONE' by PATRICK CAREY |