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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COUNTRY AFTERNOON, by FLORENCE CROW
First Line: I had forgotten wheatfields
Last Line: On a country air.
Variant Title(s): Let Me Remember
Subject(s): Country Life
First Line: I had forgotten wheatfields
Last Line: On a country air.
Variant Title(s): Let Me Remember
Subject(s): Country Life
I had forgotten wheatfields
Bent in russet shadow.
I had forgotten earth-smells,
And how a day is spun
Of a thousand yellow butterflies
Dancing at a pond-side,
And scent of mellilotis
In a slanting sun.
Tomorrow on the pavement, Lord,
Let me remember wheatfields,
When sultry walls confront me
Let me be aware
Of space that harbors gratefully
Sun and yellow butterflies,
And the smell of mellilotis
On a country air.
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