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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE OLD LOWE HOUSE, STATEN ISLAND, by ALAN SEEGER Poet's Biography
First Line: Another prospect pleased the builder's eye
Last Line: Things indistinct, but not insensible.
Subject(s): Staten Island
First Line: Another prospect pleased the builder's eye
Last Line: Things indistinct, but not insensible.
Subject(s): Staten Island
Another prospect pleased the builder's eye,
And Fashion tenanted (where Fashion wanes)
Here in the sorrowful suburban lanes
When first these gables rose against the sky.
Relic of a romantic taste gone by,
This stately monument alone remains,
Vacant, with lichened walls and window-panes
Blank as the windows of a skull. But I,
On evenings when autumnal winds have stirred
In the porch-vines, to this gray oracle
Have laid a wondering ear and oft-times heard,
As from the hollow of a stranded shell,
Old voices echoing (or my fancy erred)
Things indistinct, but not insensible.
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