Down The Bayou Other Poems PDF Download

Excerpt from Down the Bayou, the Captain's Story, and Other Poems Past open doors where parrots screamed Past courts where mingled shade and glare Fell through pomegranate boughs, to where The turbaned negress, drowsy grown, Sat nodding in her ample chair; Beyond the joyance and the stress, Beyond the greater and the less, Beyond the tiresome noonday town, The parish prison's cupolas, The bridges, with their creaking draws, And many a convent's frown, re drifted on, my Love and I, Beneath the semi-tropic Sky, While from the clock-towers in the town Spake the meridian bells that said. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.