Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PRAIRIE GREYHOUNDS; C.P.R. 'NO. 1, WESTBOUND', by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poet's Biography First Line: I swing to the sunset land Last Line: That open alone to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Commuters; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains | ||||||||
I SWING to the sunset land The world of prairie, the world of plain, The world of promise and hope and gain, The world of gold, and the world of grain, And the world of the willing hand. I carry the brave and bold The one who works for the nation's bread, The one whose past is a thing that's dead, The one who battles and beats ahead, And the one who goes for gold. I swing to the "Land to Be," I am the power that laid its floors, I am the guide to its western stores, I am the key to its golden doors, That open alone to me. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE RAILWAY by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON WHAT WE DID TO WHAT WE WERE by PHILIP LEVINE BURYING GROUND BY THE TIES by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH WAY-STATION by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH TWILIGHT TRAIN by EILEEN MYLES THE CAVEMAN ON THE TRAIN by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON |
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