Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT THE END OF SUMMER, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poet's Biography First Line: In days to come I shall remember these Last Line: To set me freeI have these memories! Subject(s): Memory; Summer | ||||||||
IN days to come I shall remember these The look of water ... blue ... beyond the trees ... A green lawn running down to meet the beach, Yet holding its sweet softness out of reach Of hungering waves that thunder for a kiss Too woman-timid to accede to bliss! I shall remember screaming gulls that flew Between the water's and the sky's bright blue ... Boats that strained at their moorings in the bay, Like slim race horses, waiting racing day. ... The other shoresometimes, so close at hand; At others, far as theEnchanted Land. I shall recall the water's woman ways ... How frankly at the sun it smiled, some days; And thenas though regretting it had smiled As rough and surly as a peevish child ... Againhiding from him in coquetry, Wrapped in a soft gray veil of mystery! I shall recall the soft, sweet look of Dawn, Reflected in the bay when Night is gone. ... How the smooth water mirrored sunset skies, And on the blue, moonless nights, star-fireflies. ... And how it shivered at the young moon's kiss In days to come I shall remember this! Now I shall lose them alltall trees ... green lawn ... Blue water ... sunset skies ... young moon ... and dawn! I shall go back to city walls ... and men But they can never prison me again. ... I can escape! Ah, yes, I have the keys To set me freeI have these memories! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ADVANCE OF SUMMER by MARY KINZIE THE SUMMER IMAGE by LEONIE ADAMS CANOEBIAL BLISS by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY THE END OF SUMMER by HENRY MEADE BLAND THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD SONNET: 14. APPROACH OF SUMMER by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES JULY IN WASHINGTON by ROBERT LOWELL ODE TO THE END OF SUMMER by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY A DESERTED HOUSE by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY |
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