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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...PINE-TREES AND THE SKY: EVENING by RUPERT BROOKE THE OLD WOMAN by JOSEPH CAMPBELL SNOW IN THE SUBURBS by THOMAS HARDY TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE THIRD DAY: SCANDERBERG by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW INTROSPECTIVE by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI THE STUDY OF A SPIDER by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN MOST ANY BIT OF LANDSCAPE by JEAN CAMERON AGNEW PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 91 by EDWIN ARNOLD |
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