Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCTOBER FROM A BUS WINDOW, by ELLA MCBRIDE BALLEW First Line: I see flamboyant sumac on a hill Last Line: And dusk drops quickly over all. | ||||||||
I see flamboyant sumac on a hill, And ivy with its fingers all blood-stained; A maple wearing kingly orpiment, A struggling brooklet almost drained. I glimpse "the cattle on a thousand hills," And little creatures hard at work or play; I smell the winey breath of bursting grapes, The gleanings of sweet-clover hay. Just for an instant I can hear the scold Of blackbirds, or a cardinal's fluty call; But suddenly I spy a pin-point star, And dusk drops quickly over all. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOLILOQUY OF A TURKEY by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR A THUNDERSTORM IN TOWN by THOMAS HARDY ON LUCY, COUNTESS OF BEDFORD by BEN JONSON SONG TOURNAMENT: NEW STYLE by LOUIS UNTERMEYER FIRST CYCLE OF LOVE POEMS: 5 by GEORGE BARKER TO ALEXIS IN ANSWER TO HIS POEM AGAINST FRUITION by APHRA BEHN |
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