Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, A NOVEMBER LANDSACPE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN



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First Line: How like a rich and gorgeous picture hung
Last Line: With all its kindling lamps the distant city rose.
Subject(s): Flowers; Memory; November; Providence, Rhode Island


HOW like a rich and gorgeous picture hung
In memory's storied hall, seems that fair scene
O'er which long years their mellowing tints have flung.
The wayside flowers had faded one by one,
Hoar were the hills, the meadows drear and dun, --
When homeward, wending, 'neath the dusky screen
Of the autumnal woods at close of day,
As o'er a pine-clad height my pathway lay,
Lo! at a sudden turn, the vale below
Lay far outspread, all flushed with purple light;
Gray rocks and umbered woods gave back the glow
Of the last day-beams, fading into night;
While down the glen where fair Moshaussuck flows
With all its kindling lamps the distant city rose.





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