Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VIOLIN SONGS: MY HEART THY LARK, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why dost thou want to sing Last Line: Thy lark to meet thy day! Subject(s): Birds; God; Happiness; Hearts; Larks; Joy; Delight; Skylarks | ||||||||
WHY dost thou want to sing When thou hast no song, my heart? If there be in thee a hidden spring, Wherefore will no word start? On its way thou hearest no song, Yet flutters thy unborn joy! The years of thy life are growing long Art still the heart of a boy? Father, I am thy child! My heart is in thy hand! Let it hear some echo, with gladness wild, Of a song in thy high land. It will answerbut how, my God, Thou knowest; I cannot say: It will spring, I know, thy lark, from thy sod Thy lark to meet thy day! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS; ON HEARING A SKYLARK SING by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE CAGED SKYLARK by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE SEA AND THE SKYLARK by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE WOODLARK by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE LARK ASCENDING by GEORGE MEREDITH RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS by ISAAC ROSENBERG AUBADE [OR, A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN], FR. CYMBELINE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE LOST AND FOUND by GEORGE MACDONALD THAT HOLY THING by GEORGE MACDONALD THE BABY, FR. AT THE BACK OF THE NORTH WIND by GEORGE MACDONALD |
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