Soft thumps in the earth as you approach you need comfort and food now your body saved for the time being trenches are dug under the wooden walls of the fort that one may pass in and out fiery arrows dart from the cliff across the river men familiarly torch roofs no sooner do you beat the fires with wet skins then the fire rains down again the cattle drink the rain children's hair beaded with tears a whippoorwill calls a fish hawk lodges in the top of a pine the dead live in the wild hitherto I was prevented from observing structures burn to the ground these were events of a time I went without you and came back without you by and by the tempest spent itself I allow that I'm not myself today I slip my arm through yours though no one ought to open up that country first the settlements and claims then the same land sold over and over it's at this point in our history we cannot go ahead if we value life that turns into tribute no longer visit my love | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...MEMORIAL DAY by WILLIAM E. BROOKS THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 27. LOVE, AND NEVER FEAR by THOMAS CAMPION ON THE DANGER OF WAR by GEORGE MEREDITH THE SOBBING OF THE BELLS (MIDNIGHT, SEPT. 19-20, 1881) by WALT WHITMAN THE ARGONAUTS (ARGONATUICA): MEDEA'S DREAM by APOLLONIUS RHODIUS LAMENT OF AROMAITERAI by AROMAITERAI TO ADOLPHE GAIFFE by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE TO DR. AIKIN ON HIS COMPLAINING THAT SHE NEGLECTED HIM by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |