Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SOLILOQUY, by FREDERICK E. LAIGHT First Line: I have seen tall chimneys without smoke Last Line: Of godly men that somehow it shall rain. Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Drought; Prairies; Recessions; Plains | ||||||||
I have seen tall chimneys without smoke, And I have seen blank windows without blinds, And great dead wheels, and motors without minds, And vacant doorways grinning at the joke. I have seen loaded wagons creak and sway Along the roads into the North and East, Each dragged by some great-eyed and starving beast To God knows where, but just awayaway. And I have heard the wind awake at nights Like some poor mother left with empty hands, Go whimpering in the silent stubble lands And creeping through bare houses without lights. These comforts only have I for my pain The frantic laws of statesmen bowed with cares To feed me, and the slow, pathetic prayers Of godly men that somehow it shall rain. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEFT-HANDED POEM by JAMES GALVIN NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER by ANSELM HOLLO POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE PRAIRIE HOUSES by BARBARA GUEST AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE PRAIRIES by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT TO MAKE A PRAIRIE by EMILY DICKINSON THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING by WALT WHITMAN SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL by EVA K. ANGLESBURG |
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