Among the Hills and other poems
‹
›
- Browse Category
We Begin at the EndLearn More - Choice Picks
- Top 100 Free Books
- Blog
- Recently Added
- Submit your eBook
By John Greenleaf Whittier
9 Oct, 2020
ALONG the roadside, like the flowers of gold
That tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,
Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,
And the red pennons of the cardinal-flowers
Hang motionless upon their upright staves.
The sky is hot and hazy, a
... Read more
ALONG the roadside, like the flowers of gold
That tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,
Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,
And the red pennons of the cardinal-flowers
Hang motionless upon their upright staves.
The sky is hot and hazy, and the wind,
Vying-weary with its long flight from the south,
Unfelt; yet, closely scanned, yon maple leaf
With faintest motion, as one stirs in dreams,
Confesses it. The locust by the wall
Stabs the noon-silence with his sharp alarm.
A single hay-cart down the dusty road
Creaks slowly, with its driver fast asleep
On the load's top. Against the neighboring hill,
Huddled along the stone wall's shady side,
The sheep show white, as if a snowdrift still
Defied the dog-star. Less
- File size
- Print pages
- Publisher
- Language
- ISBN
- 106.695 KB
- 24
- Public Domain Book
- English
- 978-1979612326
Author
Related Books
Fasti:
Songs, and other verse:
Over Here:
The Song of Hiawatha:
.jpeg){kind=logo}
Les poesies de Sapho de Lesbos:
Indo-European Poetry and Myth:
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - Volume 1:
New Poems, and Variant Readings:
In Flanders Fields & Other Poems:
A Floral Fantasy in an Old English Garden:
The Botanic Garden: A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: The Economy of Vegetation:
Gendered Spaces in Contemporary Irish Poetry:
Japanese Prints:
With the Colors, Songs of the American Service:
Early English Alliterative Poems, in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century:
Chinese poetry in times of mind, mayhem and money:
The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 4:
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man:
Catvlli Carmina:
Christmas Eve:
The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme:
.jpg){kind=logo}
The Oxford Book of Latin Verse:
.jpg){kind=logo}
Lancelot of the Laik: A Scottish Metrical Romance (About 1490-1500 A. D.):
Dialect Poetry of Southern Italy:
Rhymes à la mode:
Join us and get access to all your favourite books
It’s free
