Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EXPATRIATE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY


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EXPATRIATE, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: City towers that have prisoned me
Last Line: It will not be a dream!
Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life


CITY towers that have prisoned me
Will fade ... at last ... from view,
And sounds that hurt will die—I shall know
What things my childhood knew.

I shall find my own red hills again
After long wandering;
I shall se my yellow river—mine!
And I shall hear it sing!

I shall smell the pines once more—my pines
That fling their odors far;
I shall come to where the jessamine
And the violets are.

I shall know again Winter greenness—
The dark and shining leaves
Of dusk, wild olives and of live-oaks,
Where gray moss hangs and grieves.

And all about me there will be—sunshine!—
My sunshine, that is gold
And warm ... not the pale Northern sunshine
That is silver and cold!

I shall see the far buzzards soaring ...
High ... in the blue above;
There will be wild birds calling, calling
In red gullies I love!

And there will be mocking-birds singing;
I shall hear bluejays scream ...
This time no one will wake me ... this time
It will not be a dream!





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