Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ODE TO FANCY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON First Line: Fancy, sweet and truant sprite Last Line: But 't is for fancy's ear alone. Subject(s): Imagination; Fancy | ||||||||
Fancy, sweet and truant sprite, Steals on wings, as feathers light, Draws a veil o'er Reason's eye, And bids the guardian senses fly. Soft she whispers to the mind, Come, and trouble leave behind: She banishes the fiend Despair, And shuts the eyes of waking Care. Then, o'er precipices dark, Where never reached the wing of lark, Fearing no harm, she dauntless flies, Where rocks on rocks dread frowning rise. When Autumn shakes his hoary head, And scatters leaves at every tread; Fancy stands with list'ning ear, Nor starts, when shrieks affrighted Fear. There's music in the rattling leaf, But 't is not for the ear of Grief; There's music in the wind's hoarse moan, But 't is for Fancy's ear alone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE IMAGINED COPPERHEAD by ANDREW HUDGINS A SICK CHILD by RANDALL JARRELL IMAGINARY TROUBLE by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS EVERYTHING THAT ACTS IS ACTUAL by DENISE LEVERTOV ON THE MEETING OF GARCIA LORCA AND HART CRANE by PHILIP LEVINE A DREAM by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON |
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