All around me to-ing and fro-ing In a strapping south wind Pine boughs lisp their approval Of moving without moving around, saying, Shh! This way! Shh! This way! They contradict each other By all saying the same thing. Better to impersonate than to Personify, when it comes to nature. Shh! I tell them. This way! And start walking. Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA 98368-0271, www.cc.press.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DAY OF THE DEAD SOLDIERS; MARY 30, 1869 by EMMA LAZARUS THE NEGRO'S TRAGEDY by CLAUDE MCKAY FRANCE: AN ODE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE BARBER'S by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE THE COMING AMERICAN by SAM WALTER FOSS |