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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A STREET SCENE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The east is a clear violet mass
Last Line: Turns back, and looks again.
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
First Line: The east is a clear violet mass
Last Line: Turns back, and looks again.
Subject(s): Cities; Urban Life
The east is a clear violet mass
Behind the houses high;
The laborers with their kettles pass;
The carts are creaking by.
Carved out against the tender sky,
The convent gables lift;
Half way below the old boughs lie
Heaped in a great white drift.
They tremble in the passionate air;
They part, and clean and sweet
The cherry flakes fall here, fall there;
A handful stirs the street.
The workmen look up as they go;
And one, remembering plain
How white the Irish orchards below,
Turns back, and looks again.
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