Frieze of warm bronze that glides with catlike movements Over the gangplank poised and yet awaiting, The sinewy thudding rhythm of forty shuffling feet Falling like muffled drumbeats on the stillness. O roll the cotton down, Roll, roll the cotton down, From the further side of Jordan, O roll the cotton down! And the river waits, The river listens, Chuckling little banjo-notes that break with a flop on the stillness; And by the low dark shed that holds the heavy freights, Two lonely cypress tress stand up and point with stiffened fingers Far southward where a single chimney stands out aloof in the sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...WILLIE BREW'D A PECK O' MAUT by ROBERT BURNS DISILLUSIONMENT OF TEN O'CLOCK by WALLACE STEVENS AUNT FANNY; A LEGEND OF A SHIRT by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM THANKSGIVING - 1937 by JOSIE CRAIG BERRY PSALM 123 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A LONG JOURNEY by EDWARD CARPENTER A FLOWER OF THE FIELDS by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN |