good story telling…

Book review:

The Complete Poems of Sarah Orne Jewett

by Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909)

New York: Ironweed Press, 1999

85 pages

It is a solid, pleasant experience to read the poems of Sarah Orne Jewett.

Mostly her imagery in The Complete Poems is not exalted, and mostly her insights are not life-changing, but she is a compelling story teller and she invites the reader to see what she sees.

That’s good.

Some excerpts:

“And so, across the empty miles

Light from my star shines. Is it, dear,

Your love has never gone away?

I said farewell and—kept you here”

From “Together”

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“The nearest daisies looked at me

Because they heard me call;

And they told each other what I had said,

Though they did not hear it all.

And I stood there wishing for you,

All alone on the hill;

While far below were the fields asleep,

And above, the sky so still.”

From “A Night in June”

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“I saw the worn rope idle hang

Beside me in the belfry brown.

I gave the bell a solemn toll—

I rang the knell for Gosport town.”

From “On Star Island”

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A glimpse of the millennial dawn…

witness to the song of the sea…

a nature poem

“Chanson de mer”

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