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larryhammerFor Poetry Monday:
Wings at Dawn, Joseph Auslander
Dawn is dense with twitter,
And the white air swims and sings
In rapid wings that glitter,
And the flashing of wings—
Delicate and fugitive shiverings.
The dews curl up in haze,
While the sun from his hive
Like a giant bee ablaze
Bursts dizzily alive—
And through the glow a thousand swallows dive.
Light like a storm
Deluges the grass,
And birds in a swarm
Wheel, dwindle and mass—
And their wings are split silver as they pass.
Auslander (1897-1965) was the first U.S. Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress, serving from 1937 to 1941.)
---L.
Subject quote from The Blessed Damozel, D. G. Rossetti, who TIL claimed he wrote it as a sequel to Poe’s “The Raven.” I ... the heck?
Wings at Dawn, Joseph Auslander
Dawn is dense with twitter,
And the white air swims and sings
In rapid wings that glitter,
And the flashing of wings—
Delicate and fugitive shiverings.
The dews curl up in haze,
While the sun from his hive
Like a giant bee ablaze
Bursts dizzily alive—
And through the glow a thousand swallows dive.
Light like a storm
Deluges the grass,
And birds in a swarm
Wheel, dwindle and mass—
And their wings are split silver as they pass.
Auslander (1897-1965) was the first U.S. Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress, serving from 1937 to 1941.)
---L.
Subject quote from The Blessed Damozel, D. G. Rossetti, who TIL claimed he wrote it as a sequel to Poe’s “The Raven.” I ... the heck?