Reverie: The Orchard on the Slope
Reverie: The Orchard on the Slope
Original Text
Collected Poems of Raymond Knister, ed. Dorothy Livesay (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1949): 32. PS 8521 N567A17 1949 Robarts Library.
1Thin ridges of land unploughed
2Along the tree-rows
3Covered with long cream grasses
4Wind-torn.
5Brown sand between them,
6Blue boughs above.
7Row and row of waves ever
8In the breaking;
9Ever in arching and convulsed
10Imminence;
11Roll of muddy sea between;
12Low clouds down-pressing
13And pallid and streaming rain.
Publication Start Year
1923
Publication Notes
The Midland 9 (Oct. 1923): 177
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1998.
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