Its eight stanzas feature a speaker contemplating the toil that shall soon 
Its eight stanzas feature a speaker contemplating the toil that shall soon end when the poem's subject finds its "summer home." Although the vision eventually disappears, swallowed up by "the abyss of heaven," the speaker notes that "thy form" has given "my heart" a deep lesson. Beginning with the lines "Whither mids't falling dew" this work about a solitary searcher, caused Arnold to remark that it was the best short poem in the English language. Supposedly inspired by a walk its 21 year-old author took when he was "forlorn," until he saw the title animal outlined against a sunset, for 10 points, identify this poem about an inspirational bird of the sea by William Cullen Bryant.
Its eight stanzas feature a speaker contemplating the toil that shall soon end when the poem's subject finds its "summer home."
{To a Waterfowl}