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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MORNING IN CAMP, by HERBERT BASHFORD Poet's Biography First Line: A bed of ashes and a half-burned brand Last Line: Great, pulsing heart of bold, advancing day! Subject(s): Camping; Camps; Summer Camps | |||
A BED of ashes and a half-burned brand Now mark the spot where last night's campfire sprung And licked the dark with slender, scarlet tongue; The sea draws back from shores of yellow sand, Nor speaks lest he awake the sleeping land. Tall trees grow out of shadows; high among Their sombre boughs one clear, sweet song is sung, In deep ravine by drooping cedars spanned, All drowned in gloom; a flying pheasant's whirr Rends morning's solemn hush; gray rabbits run Across the clovered glade, while far away Upon the hills each huge, expectant fir Holds open arms in welcome to the sun -- Great, pulsing heart of bold, advancing day! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OH LOVELY ROCK by ROBINSON JEFFERS TO A WOMAN GLANCING UP FROM THE RIVER by LARRY LEVIS THE SUMMER-CANP BUS PULLS AWAY FROM THE CURB by SHARON OLDS COUNTRYSIDE CAMP by CLARENCE MAJOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN by LINDA PASTAN THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY ARE STARS: THE GREAT NEBULA OF ANDROMEDA by KENNETH REXROTH FOUR POEMS FOR ROBIN: SIWASHING IT OUT .. IN SISULAW FOREST by GARY SNYDER BY THE PACIFIC by HERBERT BASHFORD |
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