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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON STARTLING SOME PIGEONS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography
First Line: A hundred wings are dropt as soft as one
Last Line: With anxious inquest fills his little span.
Subject(s): Pigeons
First Line: A hundred wings are dropt as soft as one
Last Line: With anxious inquest fills his little span.
Subject(s): Pigeons
A hundred wings are dropt as soft as one,
Now ye are lighted - lovely to my sight
The fearful circle of your wondering flight,
Rapid and loud, and drawing homeward soon:
And then the sober chiding of your tone
As there ye sit from your own roofs arraigning
My trespass on your haunts, so boldly done,
Sounds like a solemn and a just complaining:
O happy, happy race! for though there clings
A feeble fear about your timid clan,
Yet are ye blest! with not a thought that brings
Disquietude, while proud and sorrowing man,
An Eagle, weary of his mighty wings,
With anxious inquest fills his little span.
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