English Poetry. Christina Georgina Rossetti. The Skylark. Кристина Джорджина Россетти.

Christina Georgina Rossetti (Кристина Джорджина Россетти)

The Skylark

The earth was green, the sky was blue:
I saw and heard one sunny morn,
A skylark hang between the two,
A singing speck above the corn;


A stage below, in gay accord,
White butterflies danced on the wing,
And still the singing skylark soared,
And silent sank and soared to sing.


The cornfield stretched a tender green
To right and left beside my walks;
I knew he had a nest unseen
Somewhere among the million stalks:


And as I paused to hear his song,
While swift the sunny moments slid,
Perhaps his mate sat listening long,
And listened longer than I did. 

Christina Georgina Rossetti’s other poems:

1. A Testimony
2. Twice
3. Repining
4. What Does The Donkey Bray About?
5. Maiden May

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

William Shenstone (Уильям Шенстон) The Skylark (“Go, tuneful bird! that gladd’st the skies”)

James Hogg (Джеймс Хогг) The Skylark (“Bird of the wilderness”)

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