HARD by the Indian lodges, where the bush Breaks in a clearing, through ill-fashioned fields, She comes to labour, when the first still hush Of autumn follows large and recent yields. Age in her fingers, hunger in her face, Her shoulders stooped with weight of work and years, But rich in tawny colouring of her race, She comes a-field to strip the purple ears. And all her thoughts are with the days gone by, Ere might's injustice banished from their lands Her people, that to-day unheeded lie, Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE'S RESURRECTION DAY by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON ON THE DEATH OF A CAT by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN MASSACRE OF THE MACPHERSON by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN LILIES: 2. MY SWORD by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) |