Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EVENING ON A VILLAGE STREET, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poet's Biography First Line: The sun flings lengthening shadows through the trees Last Line: The sum of streets like thisamerica! Subject(s): United States; Villages; America | ||||||||
THE sun flings lengthening shadows through the trees That green the village street. They come to life, The houses that have seemed to sleep all day. The evening meal is over, dishes done, And prim, trim women sit and rock and knit Upon the porches, read the village news Recorded in the paper, out today, Or move about the yards to give their plants Their evening watering, or chat across the hedge With friendly neighbors on the other side, Or swap rose-cuttings and geranium slips. The men, shirt-sleeved, walk leisurely behind Their lawn-mowers, or rake and sweep their paths, Or tie their vines up to their trellises Small, pleasant tasks, with which they rest themselves At evening, when their day of work is done. The children call and shout there in the street, Or play at hide-and-seek from yard to yard. And arm in arm young lovers stroll in pairs, Bound for the moving-pictures in the square. The sun has dropped, now, low, behind the hill The high, blue hill that rises to the west. The dark leaps on; high up, a sudden star Blooms out like some pale flower; a thin, young moon Hangs like a silver string caught in the trees, And in the houses lights begin to glow. Here on the street another day is done So like the last day and the coming one So like this street to other village streets! And yet the total of such days isLife, The sum of streets like thisAmerica! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS SHINE, PERISHING REPUBLIC by ROBINSON JEFFERS WATCH THE LIGHTS FADE by ROBINSON JEFFERS AFTER TENNYSON by AMBROSE BIERCE MEETING YOU AT THE PIERS by KENNETH KOCH INVOCATION TO THE SOCIAL MUSE by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH A DESERTED HOUSE by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY |
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