Classic and Contemporary Poetry
NEAR AMSTERDAM; AFTER ALBERT CUYP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poet's Biography First Line: Sober gray skies and ponderous clouds Last Line: Smokes placidly the stout de witt. Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Canals | ||||||||
SOBER gray skies and ponderous clouds, With gaps between of pallid blues; Bluff breezes stirring the brown canal; A broad, flat meadow's myriad hues Of soft and changeful breadths of green, Barred with the silvery grass that bows By straight canals, and dotted o'er With black and white of basking cows; And distant sails of hidden ships The ceaseless windmills show or hide, Through languid willows white they gleam, And over red-tiled houses glide. Two sturdy lads with wooden shoes Go clumping down the reed-fringed dyke, And tow a broad-bowed boat, where dreams The quaint, sweet virgin of Van Eyck. And slipt from out the revel high, Where gay Franz Hals has bid him sit, Above the bridge, his lazy pipe Smokes placidly the stout De Witt. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CANAL by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN OXFORD CANAL by JAMES ELROY FLECKER CROSSING A CANAL-LOCK by JOSEPH U. HARRIS BUNG TOWN CANAL by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING INSCRIPTIONS FOR THE CALEDONIAN CANAL by ROBERT SOUTHEY HALT ON THE CANAL by PAUL CLAUDEL AGED PILOT MAN by SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS EPIGRAM ON THE SOUTHAMPTON CANAL by HENRY JAMES PYE A DECANTER OF MADEIRA, AGED 86, TO GEORGE BANCROFT, AGED 86 by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL HOW THE CUMBERLAND WENT DOWN [MARCH 8, 1862] by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL |
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