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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOUVENANCE DE LIEGE (NOVEMBER), by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poet's Biography
First Line: Grey city by the silver meuse, I fling
Last Line: Of blue-and-grey behind her upturned head.
Subject(s): Liege, Belgium; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
First Line: Grey city by the silver meuse, I fling
Last Line: Of blue-and-grey behind her upturned head.
Subject(s): Liege, Belgium; Sonnet (as Literary Form)
GREY city by the silver Meuse, I fling
One precious day to thee of my brief days;
Take it, and give remembrance: Mellow praise
Of chimes across a moonlit evening,
Rain of light echoes; the full, wavy swing
Of burdened barges down thy waterways—
Noise nearest music; the blue, holy haze
And perfume of old altars; wing on wing
Of iridescent doves descending soft
Within a Gothic gate where one strews bread
For alms to the air's beggars; beyond her,
Arcades recessive, pinnacles aloft,
November's vista deepening to one blur
Of blue-and-grey behind her upturned head.
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