Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FLIGHT OF THE HEART, by DORA READ GOODALE Poet's Biography First Line: The heart soars up like a bird Last Line: "art thou mine again?" | ||||||||
THE heart soars up like a bird From a nest of care; Up, up to a larger sky, To a softer air. No eye can measure its flight And no hand can tame; It mounts in beauty and light, In music and flame. Of all the changes of Time There is none like this; The heart soars up like a bird At the stroke of bliss. The heart soars up like a bird, But its wings soon tire; Enough of rapture and song, The cloud and the fire! Its look, the look of a king -- Of a slave, its birth, The poor, tired, impotent thing Sinks back to the earth. And the mother spreads her lap, And she lulls its pain: "Oh, thou who sighed for the sun, Art thou mine again?" | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE JUDGMENT by DORA READ GOODALE THE SOUL OF MAN by DORA READ GOODALE SONNET by ALICE RUTH MOORE DUNBAR-NELSON SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: AMANDA BARKER by EDGAR LEE MASTERS HE WROTE THE HISTORY BOOK,' IT SAID by MARIANNE MOORE LAUGHING CORN by CARL SANDBURG A PRESENCE by KENNETH SLADE ALLING VERSES FROM THE 'ANNALIA DUBRENSIA' by WILLIAM BASSE RETURN CREEPING by CLARISSA BUCKLIN THE CANTERBURY TALES: THE PRIORESS' TALE by GEOFFREY CHAUCER |
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