Living

Sing clearlier, Muse, or evermore be still

by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850–1894

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.

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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