Main Street, and Other Poems

by Joyce Kilmer from 1917

About

Kilmer's second collection, published posthumously, contains poems from his final years including pieces written at the Western Front before his death. The collection shows his devotional verse alongside more directly experiential poems of soldier life, and gives a fuller picture of a poet cut off too early to have fully developed. As a companion to Trees it completes the picture of an American Catholic lyric poet of the Progressive era.

Main Street, and Other Poems

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7.1k
Duration
~53 min

7 sections

7.1k words
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I like to look at the blossomy track of the moon upon the sea,
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Now, Main Street bordered with autumn leaves, it was a pleasant thing,
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A city street that is busy and wide is ground by a thousand wheels,
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There were only about a hundred teams on Main Street in a day,
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The truck and the motor and trolley car and the elevated train
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God be thanked for the Milky Way that runs across the sky,
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