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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE WOOD MILL, by LUTHER LAURENCE DOWRICK PRATT First Line: ...Zing...Whang...Zing...Whang...Zing Last Line: Grim rites -- where steam drives hard, and steel is stern. Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, Laurence Subject(s): Mills And Millers | |||
... Zing ... whang ... zing ... whang ... zing; the snarling drag-saws bare their fangs and rend the stricken forms of monster trees. They send their grinning teeth deep, deep. They gloat and sing, devour their victims piecemeal, whine, and fling from slavered jaws the sawdust morsels -- spend their greed on bark and bones. Their chortles blend in zing ... whang ... zing ... whang ... zing, To free the soul, ascetics flagellate and mortify the flesh. To purge the gold of dross, the searching fires torment and burn. To make a metamorphosis, their fate brings hemlocks to the mill where gaunt saws hold grim rites -- where steam drives hard, and steel is stern. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MY FATHER'S GARDEN by DAVID WAGONER HANCHEN, THE MAID OF THE MILL by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL LUBBER BREEZE by THOMAS STURGE MOORE STEEL MILL MEN by JULIAN LEE RAYFORD KINGRY'S MILL by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE JOLLY MILLER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE OLD HOME BY THE MILL by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY LAMENT OF GRANITE by DAVID ROSS THE MILLER AND HIS ADVISERS; AN APOLOGUE by JOHN GODFREY SAXE FERVENT HOUR by LUTHER LAURENCE DOWRICK PRATT |
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