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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GREEN VALLEY, by DOROTHY VENA JOHNSON First Line: I stood in a meadow Last Line: Surrounding me. | |||
I stood in a meadow And all I could see Was the green valley Surrounding me. Then the setting sun Burned a ghastly red: Blood of young men Too soon dead. A tawny lizard Crawled near my feat: I visioned women Alone, deplete. And now and then A fledgling cried, Like destitute folk On the wayside. When I beheld The tallest tree, My soul expanded Inside of me. I wished, as I viewed The greenest pit, To bury ugliness In it. The hills were rich With buds impearled. The valley seemed To engulf the world. I stood in the meadow, And all I could see Was the green valley Surrounding me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO GOD THE FATHER by KATHERINE MANSFIELD VLAMERTINGHE: PASSING THE CHATEAU, JULY 1917 by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN 1914: 2. SAFETY by RUPERT BROOKE UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS by JOHN DRYDEN THE FISHER by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE EPISTLE TO MRS. BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE by ALEXANDER POPE THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 27. HEART'S COMPASS by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI WHERE GO THE BOATS? by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON PEACE PICTURES by ELIZABETH I. BARNES ON THE VIRGINITY OF THE VIRGIN MARY AND JOHANNA SOUTHCOTT by WILLIAM BLAKE |
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