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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CONTRA MORTEM: THE TREES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birches birches birches true and white Last Line: This being swells the night of the living woods Subject(s): Birch Trees | |||
Birches birches birches true and white demure of habit and standing on ceremony bending there left or right a grove a classical harmony and yet some secret moves among them Light quivers Is it the aspens twinkling The night comes up reining a dark breeze ruffling the spirit and the near trees quicken sparkle vanish to the forest among dogwood and elm spruce and balsam viburnum and sweet locust beech rockmaple tamarack alder a congress a quiet congress for not one leaf intrudes predominantly Yet this repose this calm this being fills the night of the living woods. 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 TURNING OF THE LEAVES by VERNON WATKINS TO A BIRCH TREE by KENNETH SLADE ALLING WHITE BIRCHES by MARY BRADLEY BRAMHALL MOUNTAIN MOMENT by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH A REAL HARD TIME BEFORE' by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE WORLD AS WILL AND REPRESENTATION' by HAYDEN CARRUTH A POST-IMPRESSIONIST SUSURRATION FOR THE FIRST OF NOVEMBER by HAYDEN CARRUTH |
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