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...BUCOLIC COMEDY: THE BEAR by EDITH SITWELL EPISODE OF HANDS by HAROLD HART CRANE A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD; OR, THE BURSTING OF THE GUNS by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE THE HUMBLE-BEE by RALPH WALDO EMERSON AFTER A LECTURE ON KEATS by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES HUGH SELWYN MAUBERLEY: 7. 'SIENA MI FE' by EZRA POUND THE SHIP STARTING by WALT WHITMAN A COAT by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 70, 71. MUKADDIM, MUWAKHIR by EDWIN ARNOLD |