"Kilmer, Joyce - Main Street & Other Poems" - читать интересную книгу автора (Kilmer Joyce)

The Singing Girl
The Annunciation
Roses
The Visitation
Multiplication
Thanksgiving
The Thorn
The Big Top
Queen Elizabeth Speaks
Mid-ocean in War-time
In Memory of Rupert Brooke
The New School
Easter Week
The Cathedral of Rheims
Kings
The White Ships and the Red






Main Street and Other Poems






Main Street

(For S. M. L.)



I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea,
But it isn't half so fine a sight as Main Street used to be
When it all was covered over with a couple of feet of snow,
And over the crisp and radiant road the ringing sleighs would go.

Now, Main Street bordered with autumn leaves, it was a pleasant thing,
And its gutters were gay with dandelions early in the Spring;
I like to think of it white with frost or dusty in the heat,
Because I think it is humaner than any other street.

A city street that is busy and wide is ground by a thousand wheels,
And a burden of traffic on its breast is all it ever feels:
It is dully conscious of weight and speed and of work that never ends,
But it cannot be human like Main Street, and recognise its friends.