A Man To A Sunflower

"While I have vision, while the glowing-bodied,     Drunken with light, untroubled clouds, with all this cold sphered sky,     Are flushed above"

"As wind-drowned scents that bring to other hills     Disquieting memories of silences,     Broad silences beyond the memory;     As feathered s"

"So she became a bird, and bird-like danced     On a long sloe-bough, treading the silver blossom     With a bird's lovely feet;     And shaken"

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"