|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WILD GEESE, by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN Poet's Biography First Line: There is necessity in your swift flight Last Line: Hail and farewell. O birds, godspeed! Subject(s): Geese | |||
There is necessity in your swift flight, No silken softness or delight; How can you tell, O birds that fly Across this equinoctial sky, How do you know that no green spring Shall follow summer, that your wing Must bear you southward ere the sleet Shall hammer merciless, shall beat With scanty kindliness, these trees; That this seductive charming breeze Shall, like a siren, harden her black heart; That snow shall come, and small beasts start With sturdy fortitude to burrow Deep in cranny and in muddy furrow? Be swift. Be sure. Be certain in your flight, Summer shall be dead this very night; The air grows frigid, north winds breed, Hail and Farewell. O birds, Godspeed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WALKING THE GEESE HOME by JUDY JORDAN THE GIGGLING GAGGLING GAGGLE OF GEESE by JACK PRELUTSKY PREDICTIONS ABOUT A BLACK CAR by MARK WUNDERLICH THE SELVEGE by LINDA GREGERSON BESIDE MY DOOR by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN |
| |