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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET OF A SURE HEART, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The way seemed full of her, but these came nigh
Last Line: She brings me all the other wonders in.
First Line: The way seemed full of her, but these came nigh
Last Line: She brings me all the other wonders in.
The way seemed full of her, but these came nigh,
Fluting like birds, and calicoed bright and clean,
And beautiful their bosoms poutering by!
"But ye are a cloud," I said, "too much between."
Beauties have called to me from the woody grot,
The quick brown fox, and the red-tail tanager,
And the balsam tree; and how ye prospered not!
Ye were but scene, but frame, for circling her.
Up once I rose, in a fury of heard-of things,
To travel the splendid sphere and see its fame;
But the wars and ships and towns and the roaring kings
But flashed with the image of her! and back I came.
Since when I stay; I let the wide world spin;
She brings me all the other wonders in.
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