Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SONG OF THE COLORADO RIVER, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL First Line: To my own again in the salton sea Last Line: For the indian sagas are written in fire. Subject(s): Colorado (river); Happiness; Legends, Native American; Joy; Delight | ||||||||
To my own again in the Salton Sea, As the Indians sagas of old have said, When times and a time of my exile shall be, I will leap again from my rock-bound bed. For ages that deep dry sea was mine, For me she unbarred her ocean gates; And forever my sea shells and corallines shine On her brow, uncrowned by the envious fates. How that land was fair when I lay on her breast With verbenas aflame and green with the palms! Ten thousand ages of beauty and rest In the glow of her bloom and her passionate charms! But a jealous Titan earthward bent, And the rocks he smote both far and wide; I slipped from her arms through the mountain rent; Ah, then on her forehead the garlands died. For æons she lay with her sands unsought; I was chafing and bound in my narrow bed; But the times and a time their days have wrought, And I come again as the sagas have said. Though again I be bound I will come from afar, To the sea and the land of my heart's desire; My gates of rock I will thrust ajar, For the Indian sagas are written in fire. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE STUDY OF HAPPINESS by KENNETH KOCH SO MUCH HAPPINESS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE CROWD CONDITIONS by JOHN ASHBERY I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED by MARVIN BELL THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS by MARVIN BELL 87 CASA GRANDE by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL |
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