"Proem" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... day like those; If thrushes, close-embowered to sing, Pierced through with June's delicious sting; If swallows, their half-hour to run Star-breasted in the setting sun. At first they're but the unfledged proem, Or songless schedule of a poem; When from the shell they're hardly dry If some folks thrust them ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell |
