Social Commentaries
Midsummer Noon
From The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899)
Social Commentaries
Yonder a workman, under the cool bridge,
Resting at mid-day, watches the glancing midge,
While twinkling lights and murmurs of the stream
Pass into the dim fabric of his dream.
The misty hollows and the drowsy ridge--
How like an airy fantasy they seem.
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MLA
Markham, Edwin. “Midsummer Noon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/markham/54/.
Chicago
Markham, Edwin. “Midsummer Noon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/markham/54/.
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