Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LIFE, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE



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First Line: My life feels like a mouse
Last Line: Thrill more than flight, song, stream or wood!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Life


MY life feels like a mouse
In some strange giant's house;
Or like a single fly
In a Saharan sky:
Small part in life have I,
Yet of one sort with it whole
Is my small soul.

Bird-life makes glad the trees,
And tree-life throngs our hill,
But life would fill
An airier hive with souls for bees
More room than, far from shore,
A night-sky coops above wide seas:
Though that were packed, outside were more.

My eyes drink up the swallow's flight
Swift, smooth and light:
Their joy is free.
The sound that heaves
Like music up from a mile of leaves,
Is glory to me.

Then, there are waters gurgling along,
And ladies together singing a song,
Sounds that, entering my head,
Move more than can be said.
Oh! and by how much life, thought of, should
Thrill more than flight, song, stream or wood!





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