Living
Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still
From Underwoods (1887)
Living
Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still,
Sing truer or no longer sing!
No more the voice of melancholy Jacques
To wake a weeping echo in the hill;
But as the boy, the pirate of the spring,
From the green elm a living linnet takes,
One natural verse recapture—then be still.
Cite this poem
MLA
Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/128/.
Chicago
Stevenson, Robert Louis. “Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevenson/128/.
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