More Amy Lowell Chinois Poetry

Posted: July 14th, 2012 | No Comments »

OK, so I enjoyed Amy Lowell’s poem yesterday – Reflection – so we’re all going to read another one today – this time entitled Hoar Frost and again from The New Poetry Anthology that Harriet Monroe edited in 1917 (read the whole book if you like). So here you go – notice the repetition from yesterday of the “silken outer garment” motif kids.

 

IN the cloud-gray mornings

I head the herons flying;

And when I came into my garden,

My silken outer-garment

Trailed over withered leaves. 

A dried leaf crumbles at a touch,

But I have seen many Autumns

With herons blowing like smoke

Across the sky.

 

 

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