The house should be white, The barn red, The farm-carts blue, There should be a hillock for the dead, And a bed-room view, Old apple-trees, A rooster to crow, Down by the cornfield A sunflower row, Cows each with her bell, A fat plow horse, A maiden birch wood And a young cat of course, Hard work in the field, Good sleep in the bed -- And a ship weather-vane To swing overhead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MARTHA WASHINGTON by SIDNEY LANIER THE BIRDS by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS THE TWO OLD BACHELORS by EDWARD LEAR THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW ESTRANGEMENT by WILLIAM WATSON |