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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A SULPHUR-CRESTED COCKATOO, by MARY NICHOL CAMPBELL First Line: Unflinching, cool, detached, of raiment proud Last Line: No man could ever mark me as unclean! Subject(s): Parrots | |||
Unflinching, cool, detached, of raiment proud, Wraith of some Persian prince long ages dead, Immaculate, -- the hue of moon-tipped cloud, You stand in state, a crescent on your head. What spring is there within my breast vibrates This reverence I feel beholding you? A feeling which all self-conceit berates, Compelling me to praise a cockatoo? If true, the body does reflect the soul, How nearer to perfection are you now Than I, drab blur -- you, polychrome control, So I before your royal head must bow! Oh, were my thoughts as spotless as your sheen, No man could ever mark me as unclean! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEDITATIONS OF A PARROT by JOHN ASHBERY TROPICAL PARROTS by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA THE SAILOR TO HIS PARROT by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES THE PARROT; A DOMESTIC ANECDOTE by THOMAS CAMPBELL SONG OF THE THREE SEEDS IN THE MACAW'S BEAK by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH THE PARROT by JAMES ELROY FLECKER BREVITY by MARY NICHOL CAMPBELL DOWNFALL OF POLAND [FALL OF WARSAW, 1794] by THOMAS CAMPBELL |
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