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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE STUBBLE FIELD, by ETHEL GREEN RUSSELL
First Line: The land lies silent to the west
Last Line: Giant toad-stools in the sun.
Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas
First Line: The land lies silent to the west
Last Line: Giant toad-stools in the sun.
Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas
The land lies silent to the west
Beneath a lightly fallen snow
That spreads to the horizon's crest:
Like gilded beads, the stubble show.
This year no drouth -- nor want within:
The supper bell calls loud the meal,
The barn is bulging, every bin,
As autumn's sun sets cold as steel.
The sheaves of wheat have lost their grain.
Like sand dunes now their piles of straw
Are stacked along the pasture's lane
Where last year's heifers browse and gnaw,
Leaving, when winter's cold is done,
Giant toad-stools in the sun.
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