Poems (King)/What Is a Sonnet?
What is a Sonnet
A SONNET is a peal of silver bells
In mellow cadence blending, beat on beat;
It is a rare exotic flower sweet,
Anon, a wilding rose of fancy's dells.
Like unto veery thrush whose heart upwells
In heavenly strains the ear of night to greet,
Oft to a listening world in accents meet
A tale of joy or grief the sonnet tells.
In mellow cadence blending, beat on beat;
It is a rare exotic flower sweet,
Anon, a wilding rose of fancy's dells.
Like unto veery thrush whose heart upwells
In heavenly strains the ear of night to greet,
Oft to a listening world in accents meet
A tale of joy or grief the sonnet tells.
An opal gray, it flashes sudden fire
That smoldering in the soul to flame doth start;
Or 'tis a flute whose notes soar clearer, higher,
When breathed by lips impassioned; now a dart
From prayer's quiver, winged with fond desire,
Or mirror where is glassed the poet's heart.
That smoldering in the soul to flame doth start;
Or 'tis a flute whose notes soar clearer, higher,
When breathed by lips impassioned; now a dart
From prayer's quiver, winged with fond desire,
Or mirror where is glassed the poet's heart.