Arts & Sciences

The Load of Sugar-Cane

by Wallace Stevens 1879–1955

From Harmonium (1923)

Arts & Sciences

The going of the glade-boat
Is like water flowing;

Like water flowing
Through the green saw-grass,
Under the rainbows;

Under the rainbows
That are like birds,
Turning, bedizened,

While the wind still whistles
As kildeer do,

When they rise
At the red turban
Of the boatman.

MLA

Stevens, Wallace. “The Load of Sugar-Cane.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/10/.

Chicago

Stevens, Wallace. “The Load of Sugar-Cane.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/10/.

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