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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CHILDREN OF THE SUN: 52, by WALLACE GOULD Poet's Biography First Line: What can be said? Last Line: What can be said? | |||
What can be said? What can be said when the pericarps of the wayside rose turn crimson, with leaves at the forest-edge? when all of the leaves of the countryside are coarse and their greens are dulled by dust? when the seeds of the meadow-grasses are dried and are bowed and hiss with the nervous winds? when, at the last, comes the goldenrod -- head-dress of Autumn's steed whose gaudy caparison is gemmed with the fruits of things and the last low-trailing fringes of which drag, frayed, in the cold, gray mires of what is dead -- when the shrunken river has broadened the marsh? when the water-snakes bask long in the sun? What can be said? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHILDREN OF THE SUN: 23 by WALLACE GOULD CHILDREN OF THE SUN: 41 by WALLACE GOULD A VOICE FROM THE SWEAT-SHOPS (A HYMN WITH RESPONSES) by LOUIS UNTERMEYER DIXIE by DANIEL DECATUR EMMETT A SUN-DAY HYMN [OR LAMENT] by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES TWELVE SONNETS: 2 by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) THOUGHTS NEAR ASHAMPSTEAD AERODROME, HARVEST-TIME by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB |
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