Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE LARK'S NEST, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poet's Biography First Line: I never hear a lark its matins sing Last Line: Beneath a morning sky they could not see. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks | ||||||||
I never hear a lark its matins sing, But I bethink me of that orphan nest, Where once I saw a little callow thing, Erect, with death-cold wings, above the rest, As tho' he lived and pleaded. Light and shade Swept in and out of his poor open maw, While underneath his silent feet I saw A short-breathed group of helpless orphans laid. The life was ebbing from each infant throat, Too young as yet for music's earliest note; High up a living lark sang loud and free - Keen was the contrast - it was sad to mark Those eyes, heaven-charter'd, now earth-bound and dark: Beneath a morning sky they could not see. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS; ON HEARING A SKYLARK SING by GEORGE SANTAYANA THE CAGED SKYLARK by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE SEA AND THE SKYLARK by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE WOODLARK by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS THE LARK ASCENDING by GEORGE MEREDITH RETURNING, WE HEAR THE LARKS by ISAAC ROSENBERG AUBADE [OR, A MORNING SONG FOR IMOGEN], FR. CYMBELINE by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE HER FIRST-BORN by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER |
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