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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPRING FLOODS (IN NORMANDY), by WILLIAM RENTON First Line: A power is in the floods awake Last Line: A city by a sea. Subject(s): Floods; Normandy, France | |||
A power is in the floods awake, Whose wind-swept waters shirk and cringe, And rally, breaking to a fringe; The river lost in its own lake; The old year's crows' nests, and the pollards drowned, Like creels adrift, a floating commonweal. The mill is flooded to the wheel. The farms are flooded, mound by mound; Like rafts they seem to us (who pass and flee), And tided out from land, and drifting down To towers and a town -- A city by a sea. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 1 by ROBERT BROWNING IN ANDELYS: LONG LIVE THE SKIES OF NORMANDY: 22 by PAUL FORT WRITTEN AT CAUDEBEC IN NORMANDY by ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM NORMAN PEASANTS by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD LATE ELEGY: NORMANDY BEACH by NILS CLAUSSON NORMANDY BEACH by MILLER WILLIAMS PEAT CUTTING by WILLIAM RENTON THE FORK OF THE ROAD by WILLIAM RENTON AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT by ROBERT FROST |
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