Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SUMMER AFTERNOON, by MAY HOWARD MCEACHERN


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SUMMER AFTERNOON, by                    
First Line: The day, quite overcome with heat
Last Line: To sprinkle them, she laughed aloud!
Subject(s): Heat


The Day, quite overcome with heat,
Weary with being on her feet,
Threw herself down across the lake
Fagged utterly -- too tired to make
A swarm of drowsy, drony bees
Lie down and nap with yawning breeze.
She fell asleep immediately
And so, of course, she failed to see

The marsh-grass wading out knee-deep,
The sentry-crane drop off to sleep,
A palm, half-naked, kneel to view
Her shapeless form in breathless blue,
A loafer-lizard's stupored strength
Bend low the leaf that bore its length.

The Day stirred -- roused by sudden shove
Of objects being moved, above!
Could she have slept? In shocked surprise
She dashed cold cloud-rags to her eyes!
Refreshed, she shook the dream-drunk breeze,
And bidding him rouse nodding trees,
Looked down on limply-hanging stocks --
On multitudes of rough-dried phlox

Dipping gay fingers in a cloud
To sprinkle them, she laughed aloud!





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