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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SILKWEED, by PHILIP HENRY SAVAGE Poet's Biography First Line: Lighter than dandelion down Last Line: The burden of a seed! | |||
LIGHTER than dandelion down, Or feathers from the white moth' wing, Out of the gates of bramble-town The silkweed goes a-gypsying. Too fair to fly in autumn's rout, All winter in the sheath it lay; But now, when spring is pushing out, The zephyr calls, " A way! away!" Through mullein, bramble, brake, and fern, Up from their cradle-spring they fly, Beyond the boundary wall to turn And voyage through the friendly sky. Softly, as if instinct with thought, They float and drift, delay and turn; And one avoids and one is caught Between an oak-leaf and a fern. And one holds by an airy line The spider drew from tree to tree; And if the web is light and fine, 'T is not so light and fine as he! And one goes questing up the wall As if to find a door; and then, As if he did not care at all, Goes over, and adown the glen. And all in airiest fashion fare Adventuring, as if, indeed, 'T were not so grave a thing to bear The burden of a seed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MORNING by PHILIP HENRY SAVAGE SOLITUDE by PHILIP HENRY SAVAGE THE PRICE OF WOMEN by KAREN SWENSON THE LAST WISH by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON TYRANNICK [TYRANNIC] LOVE: SONG by JOHN DRYDEN VOICES OF THE NIGHT: PRELUDE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A REQUIEM FOR SOLDIERS LOST IN OCEAN TRANSPORTS by HERMAN MELVILLE PICCIOLA by ROBERT HENRY NEWELL |
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