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| Poems by Women |
Afternoon on a Hill
I will be the gladdest thing
Under the
sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind
bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which
must be mine,
And then start down!
From: Rittenhouse, Jessie B.
The Second Book of Modern Verse (1919).
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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.
Citing poems from these pages:
| Author. "Poem Title." Women's History: Poems by Women. Jone Johnson Lewis, editor. URL: (date of logon) |
