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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPANISH MOSS, by FRANCES LANCE FERRERO
First Line: A wisp and a tangle
Last Line: Or blot this dear picture from southland and me!
Subject(s): Moss; Wellesley College
First Line: A wisp and a tangle
Last Line: Or blot this dear picture from southland and me!
Subject(s): Moss; Wellesley College
A WISP and a tangle,
A streamer, a mesh,
For the old tree to dangle,
The spring wind to thresh:
The young moon behind it,
A cabin below;
An owl there to mind it,
And Venus to glow:
A pool in the rice-field,
With peepers to plash;
Some cedars, a mice-field,
Where furry things dash
And shake down the seeds
From the quivering weeds;
Where the meadow-lark breeds,
And -- the person were rash
Who would think to undo all that moss from the tree,
Or blot this dear picture from Southland and me!
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