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The collection gathers short lyrical poems and sonnets that meditate on seasonal change, love and its vicissitudes, friendship and parting, aspiration and disappointment, and quiet domestic and natural scenes. Many pieces favor intimate first-person reflection, blending pastoral imagery—gardens, birds, waves, and twilight—with moral and spiritual concerns about faith, striving, and memory. Varied short forms, occasional rondeau and sonnet sequences, produce compact musicality and a tone alternating between wistfulness and gentle affirmation, while recurring motifs of journey, secret longing, and consolation knit the individual lyrics into a unified contemplative arc.

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Title: Short Flights

Author: Meredith Nicholson

Release date: December 6, 2020 [eBook #63973]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Credits: D A Alexander, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed
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SHORT FLIGHTS

BY
MEREDITH NICHOLSON

With a weak, uncertain wing
And a short flight, faltering
Like a heart afraid to sing.

INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOWEN-MERRILL CO.
1891


Copyright 1890
BY
MEREDITH NICHOLSON


TO MY UNCLE
WILLIAM MORTON MEREDITH