Christina Rossetti — A Green Cornfield

                 "And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest." The earth was green, the sky was blue:          I saw and heard one sunny morn A skylark hang between the two,          A singing speck above the corn; A stage below, in gay accord,         White butterflies danced on the wing, And still the singing skylark soared          And silent sank, and soared to sing. The cornfield stretched a tender green          To right and left beside my walks; I knew he had a nest unseen          Somewhere among the million stalks: And as I paused to hear his song          While swift the sunny moments slid, Perhaps his mate sat listening long,         And listened longer than I did.