Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SECRET, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY


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First Line: Nightingales warble about it
Last Line: If one sweet maid is true.
Subject(s): Love; Nature


NIGHTINGALES warble about it
All night under blossom and star;
The wild swan is dying without it,
And the eagle crieth afar;
The sun, he doth mount but to find it,
Searching the green earth o'er;
But more doth a man's heart mind it —
O more, more, more!

Over the gray leagues of ocean
The infinite yearneth alone;
The forests with wandering emotion
The thing they know not intone;
Creation arose but to see it,
A million lamps in the blue;
But a lover, he shall be it,
If one sweet maid is true.





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