Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the cocoa and cactus are neighbors Last Line: And under my fig and my vine. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): California | ||||||||
Where the cocoa and cactus are neighbors, Where the fig and the fir-tree are one; Where the brave corn is lifting bent sabres And flashing them far in the sun; Where maidens blush red in their tresses Of night, and retreat to advance, And the dark, sweeping eyelash expresses Deep passion, half hush'd in a trance; Where the fig is in leaf, where the blossom Of orange is fragrant as fair, -- Santa Barbara's balm in the bosom, Her sunny, soft winds in the hair; Where the grape is most luscious; where laden Long branches bend double with gold; Los Angelos leans like a maiden, Red, blushing, half shy, and half bold. Where passion was born, and where poets Are deeper in silence than song, A love knows a love, and may know its Reward, yet may never know wrong. Where passion was born and where blushes Gave birth to my songs of the South, And a song is a love-tale, and rushes, Unchid, through the red of the mouth; Where an Adam in Eden reposes, I repose, I am glad, and take wine In the clambering, redolent roses, And under my fig and my vine. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOVING SHEPHERDESS by ROBINSON JEFFERS WEST COAST SOUNDS ?اض 1956 by BOB KAUFMAN CALIFORNIA SORROW: CLAREMONT RAGA by MARY KINZIE IN CALIFORNIA: MORNING, EVENING, LATE JANUARY by DENISE LEVERTOV KEATS IN CALIFORNIA by PHILIP LEVINE CALIFORNIA; FOR ADRIENNE RICH by HAYDEN CARRUTH DRY GRASS & OLD COLOR OF THE FENCE & SMOOTH HILLS by LINDA GREGG EVERYTHING'S A FAKE by FANNY HOWE A CALIFORNIA CHRISTMAS by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER |
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