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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COVERED BRIDGES, by JENNIE PENDLETON HALL
First Line: Does anyone build covered bridges now?
Last Line: Does anyone build covered bridges now?
Subject(s): Bridges
First Line: Does anyone build covered bridges now?
Last Line: Does anyone build covered bridges now?
Subject(s): Bridges
Does anyone build covered bridges now?
They used to mark the country here and there,
Not leaping streams, wide open to the air
With gallant masonry arched like a brow
Above the water's eye. You hushed, somehow,
Your chatter as the horse-hoofs plodded in,
Thumping the boards, all shadowy but for thin
Bright rays the loosened shingles might allow.
A child could lean from out the carriage seat
And see through ill-set floors the river's trend,
The shaken dust; knee-deep, a docile cow,
Or, far ahead, a picture framed and neat;
The sunny outer world at shadow's end --
Does anyone build covered bridges now?
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