Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, COURAGE, by CAROLINE CAIN DURKEE


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COURAGE, by                    
First Line: Metallic sky, dull coppered slate
Last Line: A whistle on the lips that cannot smile.
Subject(s): Courage; Farm Life; Valor; Bravery; Agriculture; Farmers


Metallic sky, dull coppered slate;
A straggling cornfield, parched and dead;
Unpainted shack, bleak, desolate;
A woman with a drooping head.
But bravely, where the sun is shining still,
Six red tomatoes on a window sill.

Sagging barn; bare, rocky ground;
Hot wind that blasts and chokes and sears;
A crop in ruins all around;
A man bent low with fruitless years.
But bravely, as he plods home after while,
A whistle on the lips that cannot smile.





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