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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON STURMINSTER FOOT-BRIDGE, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reticulations creep upon the slack stream's face Last Line: As a lattice-gleam when midnight moans. Subject(s): Bridges; Rivers | |||
(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...RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL TO A WOMAN GLANCING UP FROM THE RIVER by LARRY LEVIS TWO-RIVER LEDGER by KHALED MATTAWA HE FINDS THE MANSION by JAMES MCMICHAEL THE RIVERS by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA VERMILION FLYCATCHER, SAN PEDRO RIVER, ARIZONA by MARGARET ATWOOD THE PORCH OVER THE RIVER by WENDELL BERRY THE RIVER BRIDGED AND FORGOT by WENDELL BERRY AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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