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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LONELINESS, by NAOMI S. SCOTT
First Line: My sky is bound to earth
Last Line: And make his noise of swiftness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: My sky is bound to earth
Last Line: And make his noise of swiftness.
Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness
My sky is bound to earth
Laced down with willows
Turning faintly green.
And I say to myself it is spring!
For only in spring is my sky so daringly blue:
Blue sky and new willows binding an old earth.
Now, if a bird should come
Like a thin black arrow,
If a bird should come and cut this blue --
Oh! If only a bird would come
And make his noise of swiftness.
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