Pursuit



As wind-drowned scents that bring to other hills
Disquieting memories of silences,
Broad silences beyond the memory;
As feathered swaying seeds, as wings of birds
Dappling the sky with honey-coloured gold;
Faint murmurs, clear, keen-winged of swift ideas
Break my small silences;
And I must hunt and come to tire of hunting
Strange laughing thoughts that roister through my mind,
Hopelessly swift to flit; and so I hunt
And come to tire of hunting.
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Submitted on August 03, 2020

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 438
Words 74
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 11

Peter Courtney Quennell

DescriptionSir Peter Courtney Quennell CBE was an English biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic. He wrote extensively on social history. more…

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