Four Errors
Four Errors
Original Text
Marjory Nicholls, Collected Poems,
comp. Niel Wright (Wellington: Original Books, 2009).
1I saw a fairy, perched on a stone.
2I stared too hard, and she was gone.
3I heard a bird whose note was gay.
4Pent in a cage, it pined away.
5I saw a rainbow, magic shaded.
6I sought its gold--the colours faded.
7I scanned the sea rim, far and wide,
8Nor saw Love drooping near my side.
Publication Start Year
1922
Publication Notes
Gathered Leaves (1922).
RPO poem Editors
Cameron La Follette
RPO Edition
2011
Rhyme
Form