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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BY THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The king of rivers has a dolorous shore
Last Line: Was startled some long-since battle day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers
First Line: The king of rivers has a dolorous shore
Last Line: Was startled some long-since battle day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin
Subject(s): Mississippi River; Rivers
The king of rivers has a dolorous shore,
A dreamful dominion of cypress-trees,
A gray bird rising forever more,
And drifting away toward the Mexican seas --
A lone bird seeking for some lost mate,
So dolorous, lorn and desolate.
The shores are gray as the sands are gray;
And gray are the trees in their cloaks of moss; --
That gray bird rising and drifting away,
Slow dragging its weary long legs across --
So weary, just over the gray wood's brink;
It wearies one, body and soul to think.
These vast gray levels of cypress wood,
The gray soldiers' graves; and so, God's will --
These cypress-trees' roots are still running blood;
The smoke of battle in their mosses still --
That gray bird wearily drifting away
Was startled some long-since battle day.
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