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