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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IOWA, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM
First Line: If yeats, remembering the swans in irish
Last Line: With many songs!
Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Iowa; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
First Line: If yeats, remembering the swans in irish
Last Line: With many songs!
Subject(s): Bridges, Robert Seymour (1844-1930); Iowa; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)
If Yeats, remembering the swans in Irish
Twilight, came now, would these grass hills exhilarate
His soul; would Bridges, with his treasured thoughts
Of Oxford and the Berkshire Downs, be fired,
Here by the maize and elms, propitiously;
Or Hardy, sitting by this wired fence,
Hearing a neighing horse or barking dog --
Would he forget a Cornish tale or Wessex girl
A single day, enamoured of a rough
But pleasant land? ...
Recalling now a night of wind and stars
When two black figures, like some etcher's work,
Were moving down a road; recalling peace --
Quiet of open spaces, and muffled laughter
In Iowa, I fancy Kipling, were
He here, could come delighted with a song ...
With many songs!
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