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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...WOODSMOKE AT 70 by HAYDEN CARRUTH FICTION by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON WHEN I WAS A BIRD by KATHERINE MANSFIELD SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: OAKS TUTT by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE CAPTAIN; AFTER READING HENLEY'S INVICTUS by DOROTHEA DAY THE BIGLOW PAPERS: 6. THE PIOUS EDITOR'S CREED by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 109 by PETRARCH |
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