Nature
August (Late Afternoon)
From Pictures of the Floating World (1919): Planes of Personality
Nature
Smoke-colour, rose, saffron,
With a hard edge chipping the blue sky,
A great cloud hung over the village,
And the white-painted meeting-house,
And the steeple with the gilded weather-cock
Heading and flashing to the wind.
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MLA
Lowell, Amy. “August (Late Afternoon).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/270/.
Chicago
Lowell, Amy. “August (Late Afternoon).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lowell_a/270/.
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