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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTERNOON BY THE RIVER; FOR SEAMAS HEANEY, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth holds round / the soft dove sound / ocoee, ocoee, / like puffs discharged | |||
My mouth holds round The soft dove sound Ocoee, Ocoee, Like puffs discharged From the valved stack Of some afternoon Machine silenced By distance, As under the dislodged Mast of great beeches, I prospect loam, Celts, boatstones, Bird arrows, gnome's Mud face (where maypops Still grow in spring) Till I am sleeved in Black mold that shelves Suddenly down To sulphate water Under leached mountains And doves call Leagues away on The branch I hold to, Kneeling down. http://www.wlu.edu/~shenano | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FIRST READER by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH GRANGER'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH IN MEMORIAM by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH LESSONS by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH MUSIC by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH PLOUGHING by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH STORY by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH TENANTRY by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH THE CICADA by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF J.L. MCDOWELL, M.D. (MOUNTAIN DOCTOR), 1970 by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH |
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