Measure Me, Sky!
Measure me, sky!
Tell me I reach by a song
Nearer the stars;
I have been little so long!
Weigh me, high wind!
What will your wild scales record?
Profit of pain,
Joy by the weight of a word!
Horizon, reach out!
Catch at my hands, stretch me taut,
Rim of the world;
Widen my eyes by a thought!
Sky, be my depth.
Wind, be my width and my height,
World, my heart’s span;
Loneliness, wings for my flight!
Credit
From The Bookman Anthology of Verse (George H. Doran Company, 1922), edited by John Farrar. Copyright © 1922 by George H. Doran Company. This poem is in the public domain.
Author
Leonora Speyer
Leonora Speyer was born in Washington, D.C., in 1872. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1927 for her poetry collection Fiddler’s Farewell (Alfred A. Knopf, 1926)
Date Published
01/01/1922