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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRITE'S SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poet's Biography
First Line: On lonely heights, / which a faint moon lights
Last Line: You must just let me go again!
Subject(s): Homeless; Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: On lonely heights, / which a faint moon lights
Last Line: You must just let me go again!
Subject(s): Homeless; Solitude; Loneliness
ON lonely heights,
Which a faint moon lights,
I run with the wind and dance o'-nights;
Silent I leap
Where the grey clouds sweep
Over the face of the stars asleep.
I have no home,
I go and I come,
Wet with rain and a-gleam with foam,—
When Autumn calls
And the grey leaf falls
I bask on the hot red garden walls.
If you would know,
Which way I go,
Light—light—light on my pointed toe,
You must keep watch
At noon and snatch
A ray of sun from the wild rose patch.
You must lay snares
Of gossamer hairs
And trip my dancing feet unawares,
And then, oh, then,
Like the sun—like the rain,
You must just let me go again!
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