Representative Poetry Online
On this day: February 19th
Random Poem of the Day
2It fell to earth, I knew not where;
3For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
4Could not follow it in its flight.
5I breathed a song into the air,
6It fell to earth, I knew not where;
7For who has sight so keen and strong,
8That it can follow the flight of song?
9Long, long afterward, in an oak
10I found the arrow, still unbroke;
11And the song, from beginning to end,
12I found again in the heart of a friend.
Notes
1] Longfellow wrote: "October 16, 1845. Before church, wrote The Arrow and the Song, which came into my mind as I stood with my back to the fire, and glanced on to the paper with arrow's speed. Literally an improvisation." (Editor, p. 234.) Back to Line