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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG FROM THE TRAFFIC, by MARGARET BELLE HOUSTON
First Line: The black haw is in flower again
Last Line: One a-galloping a thousand miles away!)
Alternate Author Name(s): Probert, W. H, Mrs.; Houston, Margaret Bell
Subject(s): Flowers; Texas
First Line: The black haw is in flower again
Last Line: One a-galloping a thousand miles away!)
Alternate Author Name(s): Probert, W. H, Mrs.; Houston, Margaret Bell
Subject(s): Flowers; Texas
THE black haw is in flower again,
The red bud's rosy tide
Splashes the wood and stains the shade
Where dog-tooth violets hide.
(Manhattan—Manhattan—I walk your streets today, But I see
the Texas prairies bloom a thousand miles away!)
Primroses burn their yellow fires
Where grass and roadway meet.
Feathered and tasseled like a queen,
Is every old mesquite.
(It's raining in the barren parks, but on the prairie-side, The road is
shining in the sun for him who cares to ride!)
The plum tree's arms are burdened white,
And where the shrubs are few
Blue bonnets fold the windy ways —
Is any blue so blue?
(Clouds of them, crowds of them, shining through the grey, Blue bonnets
blossoming a thousand miles away!)
How could I live my life so far
From where March plains are green,
But that my gallivanting heart
Knows all the road between?
(Manhattan—Manhattan—when you jostled me today, You jostled
one a-galloping a thousand miles away!)
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