Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HAUNTED BRIDGE, by WILLIAM CANTON Poet's Biography First Line: With high-pitched arch, low parapet Last Line: With heads against the clear brown stream. Subject(s): Bridges | ||||||||
With high-pitched arch, low parapet, And narrow thoroughfare, it stands As strong as when the mortar set Beneath the Roman mason's hands. An ancient ivy grips its walls, Tall grasses tuft its coping-stones; Beneath, through citron shadow, falls The stream in drowsy undertones. No road leads hence. The stonechat flits Along green fallow grey with stone; But here a dark-eyed urchin sits, To whom the Painted Men were known. Hush! do not move, but only look. When sunny days are long and fine This Roman truant baits a hook, Drops o'er the keystone here a line, And, dangling sandalled feet, looks down To see the swift trout dart and gleam -- Or scarcely see them, hanging brown With heads against the clear brown stream. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BRIDGE FOR THE LIVING by PHILIP LARKIN GRANITE AND STEEL by MARIANNE MOORE WATERLILIES AND JAPANESE BRIDGE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE by HAROLD HART CRANE AT DARIEN BRIDGE by JAMES DICKEY THE BRIDGE BUILDER by WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLE ON STURMINSTER FOOT-BRIDGE by THOMAS HARDY THE BRIDGE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW |
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