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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINGED BEAUTY, by VIRGINIA PAULINE SPRIGGS First Line: Mad audubon, whom failure could not blight Last Line: And motile beauty, ever on the wing! Subject(s): Audubon, John James (1785-1851); Beauty; Nature; Ohio River | |||
Mad Audubon, whom failure could not blight, Saw the Ohio, clear in emerald light, With topaz ripples where the mallard king Dived fishing; saw the sudden halcyon fling A Chinese fan abroad, of azure, bright As morning-glories; saw the zigzag flight As of a bouncing yellow ball and swing On tufted weed-top of that jocund thing, The jet-winged goldfinch; shared the panic fright Of chewinks at a buccaneering spright, The frisking squirrel; heard the mezzo ring Of blackbirds' carols; felt the fiddle-string Vibration of the meadow lark's mad flight. This was the Vision Splendid: everything Was harmony; again as Adam might He entered Eden, heard Creation sing Eternal music, saw in a blaze of light Triumph at last -- to hoard this fluttering And motile Beauty, ever on the wing! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHIFFS OF THE OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI by CARL SANDBURG ALONG THE OHIO by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN ALONG THE OHIO - NOVEMBER by MARY PRUDENCE MORTON WHIFFS OF THE OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI by CARL SANDBURG THE FORSAKEN MERMAN by MATTHEW ARNOLD THE MODERN MOTHER by ALICE MEYNELL THE MAHOGANY TREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A CHRISTMAS CAROL by GEORGE WITHER IN THE FOREST by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS |
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