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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FIREFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE
First Line: While on my bed I lay, watching the night
Last Line: Compelling, and his radiant name is love.
Subject(s): Fireflies; Insomnia; Love; Memory; Glowworms; Sleeplessness
First Line: While on my bed I lay, watching the night
Last Line: Compelling, and his radiant name is love.
Subject(s): Fireflies; Insomnia; Love; Memory; Glowworms; Sleeplessness
WHILE on my bed I lay, watching the night,
A sudden something flashed about the room,
At brilliant battle with the giant gloom,
Pulsating vividly,—a point of light;
A brigand with a bosom; a roving knight
Of old Romance, ready to reassume
The quest of Roland, and challenge Roland's doom
In the dead Dark;—a firefly, fleet and bright.
So darts a tireless thought about my mind,—
Luminous, magic, passionate with joy,
Scourging and slaying the melancholy drove
That fear its power, as the dust the wind;
Within its heart of fire a wingéd boy
Compelling, and his radiant name is Love.
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