Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE LITTLE RED LARK, by ALFRED PERCEVAL GRAVES


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First Line: O swan of slenderness
Last Line: Laughing on every spray.
Subject(s): Birds; Courtship; Larks; Skylarks


O SWAN of slenderness,
Dove of tenderness,
Jewel of joys, arise!
The little red lark,
Like a soaring spark
Of song, to his sunburst flies;
But till thou art arisen,
Earth is a prison,
Full of my lonesome sighs:
Then awake and discover,
To thy fond lover,
The morn of thy matchless eyes,
The dawn is dark to me,
Hark! oh, hark to me,
Pulse of my heart, I pray!
And out of thy hiding
With blushes gliding,
Dazzle me with thy day.
Ah, then once more to thee
Flying I'll pour to thee
Passion so sweet and gay,
The larks shall listen,
And dew-drops glisten.
Laughing on every spray.




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