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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FROM THE LAND OF SHADES: CALL AND RESPONSE WITH ELEANOR WILNER, by CONSTANCE MERRITT Poet's Biography First Line: Their voices rise and carry across the fields | |||
Their voices rise and carry across the fields To where she stands, alone in the almost-dark: Red Rover, Red Rover, they chant and call her name. With everything she is she wants to run -- Breaking through the line of arms she'll bring her favorite Back, and together they will forge another Chain. Or failing that, they'll take her in, The body of the fold (O sweet! O warm!) Moving toward their mothers' calling voices. Where the others stand she thinks she can see light (Red Rover, Red Rover, they chant and call her name); The darkness gathers round her, thick and total. It is her wish to run but something checks her: The dead do not return from the land of shades. Red Rover, Red Rover, they chant and call her name. O Dog of Athens O Belle of Amherst Traveler in Concord and Faun of the Wood Link arms with her against that mutton light. http://www.unl.edu/schooner/psmain.htm Prairie Schooner is a literary quarterly published since 1927 which publishes original stories, poetry, essays, and reviews. Regularly cited in the prize journals, the magazine is considered one of the most prestigious of the campus-based literary journals. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SELF-PORTRAIT: LILITH, EVE by CONSTANCE MERRITT CHAMBER MUSIC: 7 by JAMES JOYCE THE SEVEN ARTS by ROBERT FROST MAPLE AND SUMACH by CECIL DAY LEWIS AT SUNSET TIME by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR UPON THE NIPPLES OF JULIA'S BREAST by ROBERT HERRICK ON A SOLDIER FALLEN IN THE PHILIPPINES by WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY SHERIDAN'S RIDE [DECEMBER 19, 1864] by THOMAS BUCHANAN READ |
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