Rollo Britten. Bird of Passion. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Bird of Passion

By Rollo Britten


LEAVE the lovely words unsaid;
For another thought is fled
From my dream-entangled mind.
Bird of passion, unenshrined,
I can never phrase thee quite—	5
So I speed thee on thy flight,
Unembodied thus forever,
Floating in a mist that never
May be raiséd. Thou art one
Of the black-winged birds that run,	10
With uncomprehended flight,
Unimpeded down the night.