Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA-CHANGE, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE First Line: Before a young lark sings Last Line: Remembers how. Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Skylarks | ||||||||
Before a young lark sings, For many an hour He sits as mute and still As bud of a flower. Small head upraised to sun He drinks the air, The tranquil solitude About him there. He flicks his tail indeed But his calm eye Ignores his feathered reach Were he to fly. Yet if to him a bird Begins to sing He straightway answers back And lifts his wing. And he is born again In double flight Of song and pinion loosed On seas of light. The voice that called to him Was cause of this, That silence after joy Should beat with bliss. Later the bird may sway, Mute flower on bough, But he has sung: his heart Remembers how. | 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 THE BROWN WORD HOME by BERENICE VAN SLYKE |
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