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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINGED BEAUTY, by VIRGINIA PAULINE SPRIGGS First Line: Mad audubon, whom failure could not blight Last Line: And motile beauty, ever on the wing! Subject(s): Audubon, John James (1785-1851); Beauty; Nature; Ohio River | |||
Mad Audubon, whom failure could not blight, Saw the Ohio, clear in emerald light, With topaz ripples where the mallard king Dived fishing; saw the sudden halcyon fling A Chinese fan abroad, of azure, bright As morning-glories; saw the zigzag flight As of a bouncing yellow ball and swing On tufted weed-top of that jocund thing, The jet-winged goldfinch; shared the panic fright Of chewinks at a buccaneering spright, The frisking squirrel; heard the mezzo ring Of blackbirds' carols; felt the fiddle-string Vibration of the meadow lark's mad flight. This was the Vision Splendid: everything Was harmony; again as Adam might He entered Eden, heard Creation sing Eternal music, saw in a blaze of light Triumph at last -- to hoard this fluttering And motile Beauty, ever on the wing! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WHIFFS OF THE OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI by CARL SANDBURG ALONG THE OHIO by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN ALONG THE OHIO - NOVEMBER by MARY PRUDENCE MORTON WHIFFS OF THE OHIO RIVER AT CINCINNATI by CARL SANDBURG THE CAMBODIAN BOX by KAREN SWENSON SONNET: 21. TO CYRIACK SKINNER by JOHN MILTON LALLA ROOKH: PARADISE AND THE PERI by THOMAS MOORE |
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