THERE was a thought that through my mind Sped with a whirling glow, It was more wild and beautiful Than other thoughts I know— Oh, much more beautiful and wild Than thoughts which come and go! It rose within me like a dawn That hides a singing bird, It left an echo of a song Sweeter than songs I've heard— Oh, sweeter far than any song My ears have ever heard. All day I've searched inside my mind— Sometimes it almost seemed I caught an echo and a glow, But mother says I dreamed— Oh, I should like to dream again If 'twas that thought I dreamed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE WHITE PEACOCK by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET THE LITANY OF THE DARK PEOPLE by COUNTEE CULLEN WHAT THING A BIRD WOULD LOVE by ROBERT FROST AFTER THE PAPAGO by JAMES GALVIN BRIGHTNESS AS A POIGNANT LIGHT by DAVID IGNATOW |