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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER WHISTLER, by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY First Line: This mezzo-tint of mist and smoke blue sir Last Line: This river dusk to you. Subject(s): Bridges | |||
This mezzo-tint of mist and smoke blue air, These gray blue waters, gray black cherry trees Are Whistler's manner to the brushtip. . . these And shore-lamps lit against the nearing night, That lie in little broken lanes of light. He would have washed these wistful colors in With brooding hand and spirit edged and keen -- His vision and the subtle hour akin -- Seeing beyond the symbol the unseen, The overtones of tint, the underglow Which lends that nameless gleam of lustre-ware To slow-rippled river there. Blue-silver lights! He would have loved them so! And that black bridge, long-spanned and low, With the frail mist fringing the farther end. What art he had for bridges -- skill to blend Their arches into his backgrounds of blue air. Swiftly he would have caught this nocturne mood, This mood of mist and sky, And held it in few strokes and fewer tones, Set there Below the blurred-in trees his Butterfly And called it "Silver and Blue." . . . Bridge-Builder of dreams, I dedicate This river dusk to you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BRIDGE FOR THE LIVING by PHILIP LARKIN GRANITE AND STEEL by MARIANNE MOORE WATERLILIES AND JAPANESE BRIDGE by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER THE BRIDGE: PROEM. TO BROOKLYN BRIDGE by HAROLD HART CRANE AT DARIEN BRIDGE by JAMES DICKEY THE BRIDGE BUILDER by WILL ALLEN DROMGOOLE ON STURMINSTER FOOT-BRIDGE by THOMAS HARDY THE BRIDGE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SIOUX SONGS: A FLYING HORSE (THE SPOTTED HORSE) by AGNES KENDRICK GRAY |
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