Wallace Stevens. The Load of Sugar-cane. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

The Load of Sugar-cane

By Wallace Stevens


From “Sur Ma Guzzla Gracile” THE GOING of the glade-boat
Is like water flowing;

Like water flowing
Through the green saw-grass,
Under the rainbows;	5

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

While the wind still whistles
As kildeer do,	10

When they rise
At the red turban
Of the boatman.