by Whitman · Cluster: Memory and Time · Memory · Nostalgia
Abstract
An imagistic miniature of a cavalry line snaking across a silvery river, arms flashing and guidon flags fluttering; a painterly battlefield scene.
Connections
Motifs: Horse, River, Flags and Banners, Swords and Weapons Forms & Genres: Free Verse Settings: Battlefield
Testo integrale / Full text
Cluster: DRUM-TAPS
A line in long array where they wind betwixt green islands,
They take a serpentine course, their arms flash in the sun—hark to
the musical clank,
Behold the silvery river, in it the splashing horses loitering stop
to drink,
Behold the brown-faced men, each group, each person a picture, the
negligent rest on the saddles,
Some emerge on the opposite bank, others are just entering the ford—while,
Scarlet and blue and snowy white,
The guidon flags flutter gayly in the wind.