Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON A LONELY SPRAY, by JOSEPH STEPHENS First Line: Under a lonely sky a lonely tree Last Line: All that is lonely, and is beautiful! Subject(s): Beauty | ||||||||
Under a lonely sky a lonely tree Is beautiful! All that is loneliness Is beautiful! A feather, lost at sea; A staring owl; a moth; a yellow tress Of seaweed on a rock, is beautiful! The night-lit moon, wide-wandering in sky! A blue-bright spark, where ne'er a cloud is up! A wing, where no wing is, it is so high! A bee in winter! and a buttercup, Late blown! are lonely, and are beautiful! She, whom you saw but once, and saw no more! That he, who startled you, and went away! The eye that watched you from a cottage door! The first leaf, and the last! The break of day! The mouse, the cuckoo, and the cloud, are beautiful! For all that is, is lonely! All that may Will be as lonely as is that you see! The lonely heart sings on a lonely spray! The lonely soul swings lonely in the sea; And all that loneliness is beautiful! All: all alone: and all without a part Is beautiful! for beauty is all where! Where is an eye, is beauty! Where an heart, Is beauty, brooding out, on empty air, All that is lonely, and is beautiful! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...VARIATIONS: 14 by CONRAD AIKEN DIVINELY SUPERFLUOUS BEAUTY by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE BEAUTY OF THINGS by ROBINSON JEFFERS HOPE IS NOT FOR THE WISE by ROBINSON JEFFERS LIFE FROM THE LIFELESS by ROBINSON JEFFERS REARMAMENT by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHANE ONEILLS CAIRN by ROBINSON JEFFERS |
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