Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET: GREAT POETS AND SMALL, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE


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First Line: Shall I not falter on melodious wing
Last Line: Sings in high realms that mock our straining sight.
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets


SHALL I not falter on melodious wing,
In that my notes are weak and may not rise
To those world-wide entrancing harmonies,
Which the great poets to the ages sing?
Shall my thought's humble heaven no longer ring
With pleasant lays, because the empyreal height
Stretches beyond it, lifting to the light
The anointed pinion of song's radiant king?
Ah! a false thought! the thrush her fitful flight
Ventures in vernal dawns; a happy note
Trills from the russet linnet's gentle throat,
Though far above the eagle soars in might,
And the glad skylark -- an ethereal mote --
Sings in high realms that mock our straining sight.





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