Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A NOVEMBER LANDSACPE, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE WEATHERCOCK ON OUR STEEPLE by ALBERT GORTON GREENE THE ENGINEER'S SIGNAL by FRANCIS BRET HARTE ROGER WILLIAMS by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN CANONICUS AND ROGER WILLIAMS by ANONYMOUS SONNETS FROM SERIES RELATING TO EDGAR ALLEN POE: 1 by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN A SEPTEMBER EVENING ON THE BANKS OF THE MOSHASSUCK by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN A SONG OF SPRING by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN A STILL DAY IN AUTUMN by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN BEAUTIFUL ORIGINAL POEM; TO EDGAR ALLAN POE by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN DAVID by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE CONSECRATION OF SWAN POINT CEMETERY by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN NIGHTFALL ON THE SEACONNET SHORE by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN |
|