Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WINTER IN DURNOVER FIELD; TRIOLET, by THOMAS HARDY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throughout the field I find no grain Last Line: The cruel frost encrusts the cornland! Subject(s): Birds; Winter | ||||||||
SCENE. - A wide stretch of fallow ground recently sown with wheat, and frozen to iron hardness. Three large birds walking about thereon, and wistfully eyeing the surface. Wind keen from north-east: sky a dull grey. Rook. - Throughout the field I find no grain; The cruel frost encrusts the cornland! Starling. - Aye: patient pecking now is vain Throughout the field, I find ... Rook. - No grain! Pigeon. - Nor will be, comrade, till it rain, Or genial thawings loose the lorn land Throughout the field. Rook. - I find no grain: The cruel frost encrusts the cornland! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOOKING EAST IN THE WINTER by JOHN HOLLANDER WINTER DISTANCES by FANNY HOWE WINTER FORECAST by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN AT WINTER'S EDGE by JUDY JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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