Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SYMBOLS (1), by VANCE THOMPSON Poet's Biography First Line: Green grew the reeds and pale they were Last Line: Her from the stars and trees. | ||||||||
GREEN grew the reeds and pale they were, And all the sunless grass was gray; The sluggish coils of marsh-water Dripped thickly over root and stone; In the deep woods there was no day, No day within them, shine or sun, -- Only the night alway. And evermore the cypresses Against the cold sky rocked and swung; The lurching of the high, black trees, Their sprawling black tops tossed and flung Against the sky. She made a hut Of dripping stone and wattled clay, And the small window-space was shut With woven reeds, green and gray. The comely stars paced soberly In the blue gardens overhead, And morn and eve the housing sky Shifted in blue and gold and red; But She who dwelt in the stone hut Knew not these things; on gathered knees She leaned her face, her thick hair shut Her from the stars and trees. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STROLLER by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS CAPTAIN CARPENTER by JOHN CROWE RANSOM THE SUMMONS by WILLIAM ROSE BENET SCHOOLTEACHER by ANGELO PHILIP BERTOCCI NATALIA'S RESURRECTION: 31 by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 44 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH |
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