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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SILKWEED, by PHILIP HENRY SAVAGE Poet's Biography First Line: Lighter than dandelion down Last Line: The burden of a seed! | |||
LIGHTER than dandelion down, Or feathers from the white moth' wing, Out of the gates of bramble-town The silkweed goes a-gypsying. Too fair to fly in autumn's rout, All winter in the sheath it lay; But now, when spring is pushing out, The zephyr calls, " A way! away!" Through mullein, bramble, brake, and fern, Up from their cradle-spring they fly, Beyond the boundary wall to turn And voyage through the friendly sky. Softly, as if instinct with thought, They float and drift, delay and turn; And one avoids and one is caught Between an oak-leaf and a fern. And one holds by an airy line The spider drew from tree to tree; And if the web is light and fine, 'T is not so light and fine as he! And one goes questing up the wall As if to find a door; and then, As if he did not care at all, Goes over, and adown the glen. And all in airiest fashion fare Adventuring, as if, indeed, 'T were not so grave a thing to bear The burden of a seed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MORNING by PHILIP HENRY SAVAGE SOLITUDE by PHILIP HENRY SAVAGE CONTRA MORTEM: THE STONE by HAYDEN CARRUTH DELUSION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MAGDALEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON MERLIN'S PROPHESY by WILLIAM BLAKE A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 52 by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN ARNOLD [VON] WINKELRIED by JAMES MONTGOMERY A CHARACTER OF JOHN MORT by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD A NOCTURNE by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT |
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