Classic and Contemporary Poetry
POINT OF VIEW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poet's Biography First Line: The little villages along the way Last Line: Peer from behind the hollyhocksand sigh? Subject(s): Villages | ||||||||
THE little villages along the way Are beads strung on a rustic rosary We shrive our city souls in telling them, We tourists of the satin ribbon roads. So swift our eager wheels, we scarcely know Where one begins and where the other ends ... The small and prim, white painted houses stare In curiosity at us who pass So quickly byand we look in at them, Beneath their elms, behind their hollyhocks, And set about with red geraniums These reared, one knows, in odd and homely pots, In windows that yearned southward to the sun Through long and white and lonely winter months. The little houses seem so peaceful now Would life in them not know serenity? Ah, surely, they hold quietyes, and peace! We look at them and sighand look again, As we speed on, back to the busy world ... Do wistful ones within, as we pass by, Peer from behind the hollyhocksand sigh? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE HOURS; FOR INGRID ERHARDT, 1951-1971 by NORMAN DUBIE STREETS OF PEARL AND GOLD by CAROLYN KIZER THE LITTLE VILLAGE by ERIC PANKEY VILLAGE IN LATE SUMMER by CARL SANDBURG IN THE BERKSHIRE HILLS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER THE DESERTED VILLAGE by OLIVER GOLDSMITH CITY AND VILLAGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON A DESERTED HOUSE by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY |
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