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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCTOBER FROM A BUS WINDOW, by ELLA MCBRIDE BALLEW First Line: I see flamboyant sumac on a hill Last Line: And dusk drops quickly over all. | |||
I see flamboyant sumac on a hill, And ivy with its fingers all blood-stained; A maple wearing kingly orpiment, A struggling brooklet almost drained. I glimpse "the cattle on a thousand hills," And little creatures hard at work or play; I smell the winey breath of bursting grapes, The gleanings of sweet-clover hay. Just for an instant I can hear the scold Of blackbirds, or a cardinal's fluty call; But suddenly I spy a pin-point star, And dusk drops quickly over all. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SONNET: 18. ON THE LATE MASSACRE IN PIEDMONT by JOHN MILTON HOPE AND FEAR by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE THE LEPER by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE L. OF G.'S PURPORT by WALT WHITMAN FRED ENGLEHARDT'S BABY by CHARLES FOLLEN ADAMS THE WITHERED ROSE by PHILIP AYRES THE TEMPTATION OF OUR LORD: BALEUS PROLOCUTOR by JOHN BALE SONG, FR. A VISION OF GIORGIONE: GEMMA'S SONG ON THE WAY by GORDON BOTTOMLEY |
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