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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PARK, by JOSEPHINE PRICE SIMRALL
First Line: From petty round of homely work and care
Last Line: The park lies, -- like god's answer to a prayer.
Subject(s): Wellesley College
First Line: From petty round of homely work and care
Last Line: The park lies, -- like god's answer to a prayer.
Subject(s): Wellesley College
FROM Petty round of homely work and care,
The quick, insistent call -- the pressing need,
The pause, -- the turn, -- the hurryings here and there,
The hungry love,that love alone can feed, --
Down to the waiting city, with its din,
Its pulsing throb of eager, human life,
Its want and staring nakedness and sin,
Its throb of big events, its frantic strife, --
I pass day after day. But in between
All still and green, with sky blue showing through
And misty blossoming, and silver sheen,
Of sun-flung shadows drenched with morning dew,
And bird songs thrilling through the rapturous air,
The Park lies, -- like God's answer to a prayer.
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