Tuesday, October 24, 2006

blue


Riverview Cemetery, Charlottesville, Virginia. I searched the name on this stone, hoping for clues regarding the inscription, came up empty handed.

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Blogger Lightnin said...

October's Bright Blue Weather

O SUNS and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October's bright blue weather;

When loud the bumblebee makes haste,
Belated, thriftless vagrant,
And goldenrod is dying fast,
And lanes with grapes are fragrant;

When gentians roll their fingers tight
To save them for the morning,
And chestnuts fall from satin burrs
Without a sound of warning;

When on the ground red apples lie
In piles like jewels shining,
And redder still on old stone walls
Are leaves of woodbine twining;

When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing;

When springs run low, and on the brooks,
In idle golden freighting,
Bright leaves sink noiseless in the hush
Of woods, for winter waiting;

When comrades seek sweet country haunts,
By twos and twos together,
And count like misers, hour by hour,
October's bright blue weather.

O sun and skies and flowers of June,
Count all your boasts together,
Love loveth best of all the year
October's bright blue weather.

Helen Hunt Jackson

12:39  
Blogger emory said...

Hey Lightnin'-thnx for poem! Sweet. The lady's name was Perhonis I think (I am still at TownCreek). Greek name...

05:12  
Blogger Barrett said...

Wow...I'll remember this, words and image. Thanks to you both.


- Barrett

02:37  

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