Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE SON; SOUTHERN OHIO MARKET TOWN, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE


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First Line: I heard an old farm-wife
Last Line: "but the harvest early."
Subject(s): Farm Life; Mothers; Agriculture; Farmers


I heard an old farm-wife,
Selling some barley,
Mingle her life with life
And the name "Charley".

Saying, "The crop's all in,
We're about through now;
Long nights will soon begin,
We're just us two now.

Twelve bushels at sixty cents,
It's all I carried --
He sickened making fence;
He was to be married --

It feels like frost was near --
His hair was curly.
The spring was late that year,
But the harvest early."








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