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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 13. JOHN DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Day was a full-blown flower in heaven, alive
Last Line: Lit fluttering on the light swift hand of day.
Subject(s): Day
First Line: Day was a full-blown flower in heaven, alive
Last Line: Lit fluttering on the light swift hand of day.
Subject(s): Day
DAY was a full-blown flower in heaven, alive
With murmuring joy of bees and birds aswarm,
When in the skies of song yet flushed and warm
With music where all passion seems to strive
For utterance, all things bright and fierce to drive
Struggling along the splendor of the storm,
Day for an hour put off his fiery form,
And golden murmurs from a golden hive
Across the strong bright summer wind were heard,
And laughter soft as smiles from girls at play
And loud from lips of boys brow-bound with May.
Our mightiest age let fall its gentlest word,
When Song, in semblance of a sweet small bird,
Lit fluttering on the light swift hand of Day.
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