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THE LAWS OF VERSE by ALICE MEYNELL

Poet Analysis

First Line: DEAR LAWS, COME TO MY BREAST!
Last Line: THAT I AM NOT A FEATHER, BUT A BIRD.
Subject(s): POETRY & POETS;

DEAR laws, come to my breast!
Take all my frame, and make your close arms meet
Around me; and so ruled, so warmed, so pressed,
I breathe, aware; I feel my wild heart beat.

Dear laws, be wings to me!
The feather merely floats. O be it heard
Through weight of life -- the skylark's gravity --
That I am not a feather, but a bird.



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