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Alexander Posey — The Dew and the Bird

Poetry Unbound

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The Importance of Being Small

Alexander Posey topples the mighty in this poem. He's saying that those who give their attention to Caesar and Homer let the lark song fall unheeded. There is more glory in a drop of Jew that shineth only for an hour than there is in the pomp of earth's great kings within the noon day of their power.

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