Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/A Green Cornfield

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4549367Poems — A Green CornfieldChristina Georgina Rossetti
A GREEN CORNFIELD.
"And singing still dost soar and soaring ever singest."

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.