Classic and Contemporary Poetry
APRIL IN 'THE STREET', by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS First Line: April of shining tresses, / tearful mouth, and laughing eyes! Last Line: Cease to grind awhile! Subject(s): April; Streets; Avenues | ||||||||
APRIL of the shining tresses, Tearful mouth, and laughing eyes! Where the budding wildernesses Wait the swallow's glad surprise, Where the slender Larch's tender Green is new and neat, Most folk set you; Yet I've met you In Throgmorton Street! When the City pigeon's cooing Takes a soft domestic note, When the daffodil is doing Duty in the broker's coat, When through highway, Court and byway, Gusts and sunshine range, And the racing Clouds are chasing Over the Exchange; What if rates be flat or firmer, What if prices fill or back, If I hear your sunny murmur Of a four days' Easter slack, Of absconding, Vagabonding From the Street's grim aisle, While its chill stones, Mammon's millstones, Cease to grind awhile! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHINATOWN BLUES by CLARENCE MAJOR KEEP DRIVING by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE DEEP IN EUROPE by TOMAS TRANSTROMER IN THE STREETS by LOUIS UNTERMEYER EVENING SONG ON OUR STREET by DAVID WAGONER ANGLOSAXON STREET by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY SONNET: 24. THE STREET by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL A STEP AWAY FROM THEM by FRANK O'HARA (1926-1966) A BLACK-LETTER STORY-BOOK by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS |
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