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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND, by LUCIE PEARSALL CAMPBELL First Line: You say the suwanee river's but a creek Last Line: Suwanee flows for those who understand! Subject(s): Suwanee River | |||
You say the Suwanee River's but a creek -- Mud-filled, a lazy outlet of the slough -- And judge its channel unimportant, now? You, with surveyor's chains and gauges, seek To measure length and breadth, as though a streak Traversing Nature's pathless waste; to plow Rough-shod through marshes, under brush and bough, Of misproportioned things you dare to speak? Ah! Your unseeing eyes can never scale The heights that give this magic stream its birth, Nor watch it purl its way through memory's land. An alien cannot draw aside the veil And estimate the South's intrinsic worth. Suwanee flows for those who understand! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SELF-REJECTED by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER A BALLAD OF SARSFIELD; OR, THE BURSTING OF THE GUNS by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE SONNET: 138 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE BEING RETIRED, COMPLAINS AGAINST THE COURT by PHILIP AYRES ANYWHERE OUT OF THE WORLD by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE EVENING MUSIC by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN |
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