WHY should I make shoddy verse, When Autumn prints, for all the world to read, Poems like these? 1. A swaggering line of sumacs Flaunting scarlet Against the dusky curve of distant hills. 2. A pearl grey twilight Lustrous with amethyst and sapphire Before a radiant dark. 3. That hushed and opal hour at the dawn When all the little grasses hold their breath To hear the silver whisper of the frost. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SISTER MARIA CELESTE, GALILEO'S DAUGHTER, WRITES TO FRIEND by MADELINE DEFREES ROMANCE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON TO RICHARD R. WRIGHT - INSTRUCTOR by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE CHANT OF THE VULTURES by EDWIN MARKHAM TO HELEN KELLER - HUMANITARIAN, SOCIAL DEMOCRAT, GREAT SOUL by EDWIN MARKHAM |