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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE VERMONTER DEPARTING, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poet's Biography First Line: He drove alone beside his sugar bush Last Line: All that last hour before the evening train. Subject(s): Travel; Vermont; Journeys; Trips | |||
He drove alone beside his sugar bush; His measure-pacing horse was not quite slow Enough to let him fill his deepening eyes With the wine-washed November afterglow. In silence sunk, he took the windy turn Round the gulfed woods, and past the Tories' well. The falls of Little River in his ears (Or in his memory!) sounded like a shell. The mountains had been hidden. Now, near home, He saw them: Windward, in its barren pride; Blaze, with its sunset rocks; and Pioneer, The cloven giant of that countryside. Their leaflessness, their stillness and their age He let his spirit drink. He slowed again His ancient horse, and stayed to look his fill All that last hour before the evening train. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RICHARD, WHAT'S THAT NOISE? by RICHARD HOWARD LOOKING FOR THE GULF MOTEL by RICHARD BLANCO RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL DESTINATIONS by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN THE ONE WHO WAS DIFFERENT by RANDALL JARRELL THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH by DENIS JOHNSON SESTINA: TRAVEL NOTES by WELDON KEES TO H. B. (WITH A BOOK OF VERSE) by MAURICE BARING COMRADE JESUS by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN |
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