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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE PORCH, by HARRIET MONROE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I lie roofed in, screened in Last Line: And hear the birds complain. | |||
As I lie roofed in, screened in, From the pattering rain, The summer rain -- As I lie Snug and dry, And hear the birds complain: Oh, billow on billow, Oh, roar on roar, Over me wash The seas of war. Over me -- down -- down -- Lunges and plunges The huge gun with its one blind eye, The armored train, And, swooping out of the sky, The aeroplane. Down -- down -- The army proudly swinging Under gay flags, The glorious dead heaped up like rags, A church with bronze bells ringing, A city all towers, Gardens of lovers and flowers, The round world swinging In the light of the sun: All broken, undone, All down -- under Black surges of thunder. . . . Oh, billow on billow, Oh, roar on roar, Over me wash The seas of war. . . . As I lie roofed in, screened in, From the pattering rain, The summer rain -- As I lie Snug and dry, And hear the birds complain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...APRIL - NORTH CAROLINA by HARRIET MONROE IN THE BEGINNING by HARRIET MONROE THE FORTUNATE ONE by HARRIET MONROE THE NIGHT-BLOOMING CEREUS by HARRIET MONROE THE PINE AT TIMBERLINE by HARRIET MONROE THE THIEF ON THE CROSS by HARRIET MONROE |
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