A Poet’s Thought

Barry Cornwall 1787 (Leeds, Yorkshire) – 1874 (London)



TELL me, what is a poet’s thought?  
 Is it on the sudden born?  
Is it from the starlight caught?  
Is it by the tempest taught,  
 Or by whispering morn?   
 
Was it cradled in the brain?  
 Chain’d awhile, or nurs’d in night?  
Was it wrought with toil and pain?  
Did it bloom and fade again,  
 Ere it burst to light?
 
No more question of its birth:  
 Rather love its better part!  
’T is a thing of sky and earth,  
Gathering all its golden worth  
 From the Poet’s heart.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

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Barry Cornwall

Bryan Waller Procter (pseud. Barry Cornwall) was an English poet who served as a Commissioner in Lunacy. more…

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