Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PLOWMAN, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY


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First Line: I sink my plow in the bare brown earth
Last Line: That the seed may enter in.
Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile
Subject(s): Plowing & Plowmen


I sink my plow in the bare brown earth
With the guide-rope 'round my hand.
The rich loam ripples behind the share
Like a dark wave on a strand.

My sweating horse strains straight ahead
While the trace-chain frets his side;
And sightless slugs of the under dark
From the shining plowshare slide.

A gray mouse runs from its trampled nest,
A lark sings in the sky;
While sun and wind in the furrow meet
And there like lovers lie.

A man, a horse, and a plow are we,
Far from the grinding din;
Opening the womb of Mother Earth
That the seed may enter in.





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