Ecstatic bird songs pound the hollow vastness of the sky with metallic clinkings -- beating color up into it at a far edge, -- beating it, beating it with rising, triumphant ardor, -- stirring it into warmth, quickening in it a spreading change, -- bursting wildly against it as dividing the horizon, a heavy sun lifts himself -- is lifted -- bit by bit above the edge of things, -- runs free at last out into the open --! lumbering glorified in full release upward -- songs cease. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BATTLE HYMN OF THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE SABBATH OF THE SOUL by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH: A DREAM OF PONCE DE LEON by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH LESSER EPISTLES: TO A YOUNG LADY WITH SOME LAMPREYS by JOHN GAY THE FLIGHT OF LOVE by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY PENT by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON |