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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND, by LUCIE PEARSALL CAMPBELL First Line: You say the suwanee river's but a creek Last Line: Suwanee flows for those who understand! Subject(s): Suwanee River | |||
You say the Suwanee River's but a creek -- Mud-filled, a lazy outlet of the slough -- And judge its channel unimportant, now? You, with surveyor's chains and gauges, seek To measure length and breadth, as though a streak Traversing Nature's pathless waste; to plow Rough-shod through marshes, under brush and bough, Of misproportioned things you dare to speak? Ah! Your unseeing eyes can never scale The heights that give this magic stream its birth, Nor watch it purl its way through memory's land. An alien cannot draw aside the veil And estimate the South's intrinsic worth. Suwanee flows for those who understand! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EVANGELINE; A TALE OF ACADIE by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ON IMAGINATION by PHILLIS WHEATLEY THE DIREFUL TALE OF HORROR by BERTON BRALEY TO MR. JOHN KENNEDY by ROBERT BURNS A MEMORY by GUY WETMORE CARRYL THE CHRISTIAN WOMAN by PHOEBE CARY A BALLAD OF AN ANTI-PURITAN by GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON TALES OF THE HALL: BOOK 16. LADY BARBARA; OR, THE GHOST by GEORGE CRABBE |
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