That sweet flute John Clare; <br />that broken branch Eddy Whitman; <br />Christopher Smart, in the press of blazing electricity; <br />My uncle the suicide; <br />Woolf, on her way to the river; <br />Wolf, of the sorrowful songs; <br />Swift, impenetrable mask of Dublin; <br />Schumann, climbing the bridge, leaping into the Rhine; <br />Ruskin, Cowper; <br />Poe, rambling in the gloom-bins of Baltimore and Richmond-- <br /> <br />light of the world, hold me<br /><br />Mary Oliver<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/that-sweet-flute-john-clare/
