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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
YOUTH REPRESSED, by MARY N. S. WHITELEY
First Line: They have brought the bird to earth
Last Line: How high a bird may go.
Subject(s): Birds; Wings; Youth
First Line: They have brought the bird to earth
Last Line: How high a bird may go.
Subject(s): Birds; Wings; Youth
They have brought the bird to earth,
Broken the wing
Still delicate from birth.
No other thing
So poignantly seems to touch
The heart, and bring
Consummation of despair,
As this now known
Of the bird laid broken there,
This blight on the thing ungrown
Before its time
Had come, or the nestling flown.
And now they have brought it low,
Which never knew
How high a bird may go.
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