Living
Rangoon
From The Englishman and Other Poems (1912)
Living
Just a changing sea of colour
Surging up and flowing down;
And pagodas shining golden, night and noon;
And a sun-burst-tinted throng
Of young priests that move along
Under sun-burst-hued umbrellas through the town.
That’s Rangoon.
Cite this poem
MLA
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Rangoon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/796/.
Chicago
Wilcox, Ella Wheeler. “Rangoon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wilcox/796/.
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