Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONG OF THE SOUTH, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the garden flowers Last Line: Than in all the world beside. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Homecoming; Love; Southern States; South (u.s.) | ||||||||
I. OF all the garden flowers, The fairest is the rose; Of winds that stir the bowers, O, there is none that blows Like the South, the gentle South; For that balmy breeze is ours. II. Cold is the frozen North, In its stern and savage mood; 'Mid gales come drifting forth Bleak snows and drenching flood; But the South, the gentle South, Thaws to love the willing blood. III. Bethink thee of the vales, With their birds and blossoms fair Of the darkling nightingales, That charm the starry air, In the South, the gentle South; Ah! our own dear home is there! IV. Where doth beauty brightest glow With each rich and radiant charm, Eyes of night and brow of snow, Cherry lip, and bosom warm? In the South, the gentle South There she waits and works her harm. V. Say, shines the star of love From the clear and cloudless sky, The shadowy groves above, Where the nestling ring-doves lie? From the South, the gentle South, Gleams its lone and lucid eye. VI. Then turn ye to the home Of your brethren and your bride; Far astray your steps may roam, And more joys for thee abide In the South, our gentle South, Than in all the world beside. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE MYSTIC RIVER by GALWAY KINNELL ENTERING THE SOUTH by LUCILLE CLIFTON SNAPSHOTS OF THE COTTON SOUTH by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS JULY IN GEORGY by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON O SOUTHLAND! by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON MY SOUTH: 1. ON THE PORCH by DONALD JUSTICE MY SOUTH: 3. ON THE FARM by DONALD JUSTICE THE RUSTIC LAD'S LAMENT IN THE TOWN by DAVID MACBETH MOIR |
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