Which way and whence the lightning flew, Or how it burned bright and blue, Design and figure by your lights; Then forth, and show the several flights Your birds have made, or what the wing Or voice in augury doth bring; Which hand the crow cried on, how high The vulture or the erne did fly, What wing the swan made, and the dove, The stork, and which did get above; Show all the birds of food or prey, But pass by the unlucky jay, The night-crow, swallow, or the kite: Let those have neither right, CHORUS nor part In this night's art. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TAM I' THE KIRK by VIOLET JACOB JUNE BRACKEN AND HEATHER by ALFRED TENNYSON THE EAGLE; A FRAGMENT by ALFRED TENNYSON ODES: BOOK 1: ODE 9. TO CURIO by MARK AKENSIDE EMBLEMS OF LOVE: 9. LOVE A TICKLISH GAME by PHILIP AYRES A SEA-PRAYER by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |