Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, NEGLECTED PASTURES, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT


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First Line: This is a legacy of love
Last Line: Picked out with drooping red lillies.
Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


This is a legacy of love
To earth's unplowed fields,
Where only weeds grow,
that when I am dead
They'll know that they have lost a friend.
These untilled fields,
Unvisited
Except by birds, butterflies and bees.

I loved
These tough, rank, vigorous growths
On stony hillsides,
On damp, undrained bottom land,
Unharrowed, cropless,
Their rough, uneven surfaces and broken down walls.
No fertile fields with scarecrows guarding them
Have pleased me more
Than tangled fields
Of deep purple iron weed,
Of pink Joe-pie weed,
The elderberry's royal hue,
The jewel weed's orange drops,
The hog plant's flame,
The butterfly weed,
The branching wild sun-flowers,
The brown cat o' nine tails, shaped like skyrockets,
Amongst plumed grasses,
Picked out with drooping red lillies.





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