(Onomatopoeic) RETICULATIONS creep upon the slack stream's face When the wind skims irritably past, The current clucks smartly into each hollow place That years of flood have scrabbled in the pier's sodden base; The floating-lily leaves rot fast. On a roof stand the swallows ranged in wistful waiting rows, Till they arrow off and drop like stones Among the eyot-withies at whose foot the river flows: And beneath the roof is she who in the dark world shows As a lattice-gleam when midnight moans. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THEY PRAISE THE SUN by JOHN CROWE RANSOM GOOD-BYE DOROTHY GAYLE: OVER THE MACKINAC by KAREN SWENSON THE BATTLEFIELD by EMILY DICKINSON A GIRL'S GARDEN by ROBERT FROST A SONG OF A YOUNG LADY TO HER ANCIENT LOVER by JOHN WILMOT THE GUERDON by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH THE CONCLUSION OF A LETTER TO THE REV. MR. C --. by MARY BARBER |