Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE GREEN WAY TO MONTEREY, by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY Poet's Biography First Line: Green is the way to monterey Last Line: The sunset roofs of monterey. Subject(s): Monterey, Mexico | ||||||||
Green is the way to Monterey, And once, upon a wandering day, With breath of mist and flash of sky, My feet were where the green ways lie; My soul unleashed, my heart at play, Upon the road to Monterey. All in the morning's golden glow I came by holy Carmelo Where whispers still its silvery stream Like voices from an ancient dream, And through the haunted silence beat The long-hushed tread of sandaled feet. Dream-wrapped in memory's mystic spell I rang the rusted Mission bell, And called to hill and vale and sea To give again their dead to me -- The brown-robed priests, the altar lights, The hosts of dark-eyed neophytes. I called the dead years forth to free Their dust-thralled feet to trudge with me. So, fared as comrades with me, then, Fair women and brave riding men. By wood and dune that dream-kissed day, They passed with me to Monterey. Blithe were the green ways then that told The gladness of the days of old; From chaparral with flocks athrong, Uprose the Indian herders' song, And ringing scythes, with laughter blent, From fields where dusky toilers bent. Madre de Dios! Keep for me My dream of hill and sky and sea -- The green ways where my path was set, The gay guitar and castanet, And stars that hailed, at close of day, The sunset roofs of Monterey. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MONTERREY SUN by ALFONSO REYES FRAY JUNIPERO by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY JUST CALIFORNIA by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY THE KING'S HIGHWAY; EL CAMINO REAL by JOHN STEVEN MCGROARTY CHAMBER MUSIC: 23 by JAMES JOYCE TO AN EARLY DAFFODIL; SONNET by AMY LOWELL HEART'S-EASE by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR BILLY IN THE DARBIES, FR. BILLY BUDD by HERMAN MELVILLE SUPER FLUMINA BABYLONIS by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE PEACE GUARANTEED by MARY J. ARMSTRONG PSALM 14. DIXIT INSIPIENS by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE CLIFF DWELLER LYRICS: ANY HOUSEWIFE'S LAMENT by BERTON BRALEY |
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