Poems (Rossetti, 1901)/A Green Cornfield
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.