In this poem Ruth Molloy admired the beauty of the West Bank of the Schuylkill River. She sees the grassy bank along West River Drive as a refuge from the unrelenting cacophony that is the city of Philadelphia. The picture is of her two daughters sitting in the grass by the Schuylkill: "And there are city children with pleased faces, who spend spring Sundays in these quiet places!"
"Spring on the West Bank"
No city is all city: each has some quiet
Place where cars are never found,
Where tower-tops seem covered in a haze,
Where the same-looking grass grows
Careless on the ground as it grew in the
City’s yesterdays. And there are city
Children with pleased faces, who spend
Spring Sundays in these quiet places!
Exhibit by University of Pennsylvania students and faculty, 2009