Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FAMILY: 7, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old lady (so they say) but I Last Line: In roaring tree, round whistling clift. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Family Life; Relatives | ||||||||
7 The old lady (so they say) but I Admire your young vitality. Still brisk of foot, still busy and keen In and about and up and down. I hear you pass with bustling feet The long verandahs round, and beat Your bell, and 'Lotu! Lotu!' cry; Thus calling our queer company In morning or in evening dim, To prayers and the oft mangled hymn. All day you watch across the sky The silent, shining cloudlands ply, That, huge as countries, swift as birds, Beshade the isles by halves and thirds; Till each with battlemented crest Stands anchored in the ensanguined west, An Alp enchanted. All the day You hear the exuberant wind at play, In vast, unbroken voice uplift In roaring tree, round whistling clift. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY AUNT ELLA MAE by MICHAEL S. HARPER THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES LIZARDS AND SNAKES by ANTHONY HECHT THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES: I LOVE by LYN HEJINIAN CHILD ON THE MARSH by ANDREW HUDGINS MY MOTHER'S HANDS by ANDREW HUDGINS PLAYING DEAD by ANDREW HUDGINS THE GLASS HAMMER by ANDREW HUDGINS INSECT LIFE OF FLORIDA by LYNDA HULL A GOOD PLAY by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON |
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