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WINGED BEAUTY, by VIRGINIA PAULINE SPRIGGS First Line: Mad audubon, whom failure could not blight Last Line: And motile beauty, ever on the wing! Subject(s): Audubon, John James (1785-1851); Beauty; Nature; Ohio River | ||||||||
Mad Audubon, whom failure could not blight, Saw the Ohio, clear in emerald light, With topaz ripples where the mallard king Dived fishing; saw the sudden halcyon fling A Chinese fan abroad, of azure, bright As morning-glories; saw the zigzag flight As of a bouncing yellow ball and swing On tufted weed-top of that jocund thing, The jet-winged goldfinch; shared the panic fright Of chewinks at a buccaneering spright, The frisking squirrel; heard the mezzo ring Of blackbirds' carols; felt the fiddle-string Vibration of the meadow lark's mad flight. This was the Vision Splendid: everything Was harmony; again as Adam might He entered Eden, heard Creation sing Eternal music, saw in a blaze of light Triumph at last -- to hoard this fluttering And motile Beauty, ever on the wing! | Other Poems of Interest...ELEGY; FOR JAMES WRIGHT by GREGORY ORR WHIFFS OF THE OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI by CARL SANDBURG ALONG THE OHIO by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN ALONG THE OHIO - NOVEMBER by MARY PRUDENCE MORTON WHIFFS OF THE OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI by CARL SANDBURG ODE TO WISDOM by ELIZABETH CARTER SONNETS FOR PICTURES: A VENETIAN PASTORAL (BY GIOGIONE) by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI SHEEP AND LAMBS by KATHARINE TYNAN HIDDEN JOYS by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD BESIDE THE SHORE ROAD by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE TO ROBERT CALVERLEY TREVELYAN & ELIZABETH TREVELYAN by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |
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