Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE COCK'S CLEAR VOICE INTO THE CLEARER AIR, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And new days begin Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Scotland | ||||||||
The cock's clear voice into the clearer air Where westward far I roam, Mounts with a thrill of hope, Falls with a sigh of home. A rural sentry, he from farm and field The coming morn descries, And, mankind's bugler, wakes The camp of enterprise. He sings the morn upon the westward hills Strange and remote and wild; He sings it in the land Where once I was a child. He brings to me dear voices of the past, The old land and the years: My father calls for me, My weeping spirit hears. Fife, fife, into the golden air, O bird, And sing the morning in; For the old days are past And new days begin. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SCOTLAND'S WINTER by EDWIN MUIR ELEGY ASKING THAT IT BE THE LAST; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE FUSELAGE INSTALLATION by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA SHOOTING SEASON; IN THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND by ROBINSON JEFFERS IN JOHN UPDIKE'S ROOM by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN THE EXECUTION OF MONTROSE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN THE HEART OF THE BRUCE by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN ROBERT BRUCE'S ADDRESS TO HIS ARMY BEFORE BANNOCKBURN by ROBERT BURNS A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
|