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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TIME AND THE MOWER, by LUCILE HARGROVE REYNOLDS First Line: Lush hosts falling before his blade Last Line: Man is a lowly creature! | |||
Lush hosts falling before his blade, And he, a conqueror, swinging ... swinging; All impudent of sweat or strain, Heart in the young breast singing. Richly fruitful his acres lie, Fulfilled of soil and sun and shower, Waiting his stroke -- Ah, man is great! His heritage is power! ... Fifty feet and back again -- Chattering blades and the shorn grass shifting In emerald whorls above the sod, And an old fragrance drifting. Shoulders bent against the load, Weariness clouding every feature; Narrow the swath, narrow the lawn -- Man is a lowly creature! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CHAMPION by LUCILE HARGROVE REYNOLDS TO THE NEW OWNER by LUCILE HARGROVE REYNOLDS WHIMSEY by LUCILE HARGROVE REYNOLDS LOREINE: A HORSE by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE A GIRL'S GARDEN by ROBERT FROST FOR G. by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON AN ECHO FROM WILLOW-WOOD by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI MAY 30, 1893 by JOHN KENDRICK BANGS FUNERAL MASS: REQUIEM by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV |
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