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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A WAYSIDE CROSS, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE First Line: The moving pictures of my flight Last Line: A wayside cross. Subject(s): Cross, The; Crucifixion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion | |||
THE moving pictures of my flight Through planted fields and orchards white With flower, past tower and sleepy town, All vanished, save a cross that stood Beside the way, close to the wood, Below a hill whose slope of brown Warmed with the first green of the vine; And there a woman bowing down Before a shrine. On paven streets I hear the roar Again, move in the crowd once more; But now when burdens seem to be Too hard, those hillsides reappear, -- That peasant form; and even here, Rising at every turn for me Out of the pain and wrong and loss, On these sad city stones, I see A wayside cross. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ... by MARVIN BELL CAROL: NEW STYLE by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET THE CROSS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE SILVER TRADE by ARTHUR SZE A FAMILY FAVORITE by LOUIS JONES MAGEE |
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