Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BY THE PASSAIC, by ANONYMOUS First Line: Where the river seeks the cover Last Line: "rests in mine. Ah! Who can send her / thus to dangle / while iangle? / cupid, speak!" Subject(s): Rivers | ||||||||
Where the river seeks the cover Of the trees whose boughs hang over, And the slopes are green with clover, In the quiet month of May; Where the eddies meet and mingle, Babbling o'er the stony shingle, There I angle, There I dangle All the day. Oh 'tis sweet to feel the plastic Rod, with top and butt, elastic, Shoot the line in coils fantastic, Till, like thistle-down, the fly Lightly drops upon the water, Thirsting for the finny slaughter As I angle, And I dangle Mute and sly. Then I gently shake the tackle, Till the barbed and fatal hackle In its tempered jaws shall shackle That old trout, so wary grown. Now I strike him! joy ecstatic! Scouring runs! leaps acrobatic! So I angle, So I dangle All alone. Then when grows the sun too fervent, And the lurking trouts, observant, Say to me, "Your humble servant! Now we see your treacherous hook!" Maud, as if by hazard wholly, Saunters down the pathway slowly While I angle, There to dangle With her book. Then somehow the rod reposes, And the book no page uncloses; But I read the leaves of roses That unfold upon her cheek; And her small hand, white and tender, Rests in mine. Ah! who can send her Thus to dangle While I angle? Cupid, speak! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...RIVERS INTO SEAS by LYNDA HULL TO A WOMAN GLANCING UP FROM THE RIVER by LARRY LEVIS TWO-RIVER LEDGER by KHALED MATTAWA HE FINDS THE MANSION by JAMES MCMICHAEL THE RIVERS by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA VERMILION FLYCATCHER, SAN PEDRO RIVER, ARIZONA by MARGARET ATWOOD THE PORCH OVER THE RIVER by WENDELL BERRY THE RIVER BRIDGED AND FORGOT by WENDELL BERRY TIS A LITTLE JOURNEY by ANONYMOUS |
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