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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HUNTER MIND, by ALICE MONKS MEARS
First Line: Good luck, hunter mind, trailing through field
Last Line: By flight of the plumaged implausible bird.
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters
First Line: Good luck, hunter mind, trailing through field
Last Line: By flight of the plumaged implausible bird.
Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters
Good luck, hunter mind, trailing through field,
swamp and thicket, elusive prey.
Startled from cover the crested word
escapes to sky, mocking your pride.
Mind always hopeful to betray
that legend: how from bush beside
climbs clear the marvellous bird
untouched and only flight for shield!
Hunter never returning from briar
and weather triumphant, never with cheer
of small fowl soft on a string, the prize
of boasting and stamping before the fire —
O hunter, good luck, in the late bitter year
companionless, intent on the long skies,
eye taut for the least grey leaf of air stirred
by flight of the plumaged implausible bird.
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