Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PLAINS BORN, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poet's Biography First Line: Westward from the greener places Last Line: Round the blue rim of the known! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Prairies; Plains | ||||||||
Westward from the greener places Where the rivers glint and twine Stretch the gold-and-purple spaces Of the country that is mine; And to lilac Rockies lifting Toward the deeper blue above, There is neither flaw nor shifting In the title of my love. My own! my own! Many a silent, sunny zone, With the soft cloud shadows drifting On the desert and the sown! I would have no wall or warder Mar my goodly heritage, From the yuccas of the border To the snowy northern sage Glad of every mind that passes Down the mesa and the plain, Singing freedom in the grasses And my pony's rippling mane. My own! my own! There is freedom here alone, Under midnight's starry masses Or the day king on his throne! Faith must blunder on in blinkers Through a city's swirling rout, For the milling herd of thinkers Blurs the way of wisdom out; But where stainless sky is bending Over never-furrowed sod There's an open trail ascending To the presence of a God! My own! my own! Where the troubled eyes are shown Heaven and earth forever blending Round the blue rim of the known! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEFT-HANDED POEM by JAMES GALVIN NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER by ANSELM HOLLO POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE PRAIRIE HOUSES by BARBARA GUEST AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE PRAIRIES by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT TO MAKE A PRAIRIE by EMILY DICKINSON THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING by WALT WHITMAN SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL by EVA K. ANGLESBURG A BORDER AFFAIR by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. A BAD HALF HOUR by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. A COWBOY'S PRAYER (WRITTEN FOR MOTHER) by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. |
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