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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GOLDFINCH, by RICHARD DEHMEL
First Line: The sunlight stabs; a thistle plot
Last Line: Our glad existence.
Subject(s): Goldfinches
First Line: The sunlight stabs; a thistle plot
Last Line: Our glad existence.
Subject(s): Goldfinches
THE sunlight stabs; a thistle plot
Gleams in the noontide still and hot.
Above the wide and jagged mere
Of leaves the stalks are lifting sheer
Their heads of purple.
Across the foliage iron-gray
A bright bird hops and hops away
Amid the host without a fear,
Blithely, as though no thorn were here—
A little goldfinch.
He flirts his tail and whirs his wing.
Then comes a breeze with gentle swing
From blossom-spear to blossom-spear
And shakes the shadows far and near;
Off darts the goldfinch.
I too go onward free of doubt,
Behold the bright world round about,
And pass through life without a fear
As if no thorn could trouble here
Our glad existence.
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