[A BOY AND GIRL ARE SENT TO GATHER RUSHES FOR THATCHING] GREEN rushes with red shoots, Long leaves bending to the wind -- You and I in the same boat Plucking rushes at the Five Lakes. We started at dawn from the orchid-island: We rested under the elms till noon. You and I plucking rushes Had not plucked a handful when night came! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FUTURE LIFE by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT ON GEORGE HERBERT'S BOOK, THE TEMPLE, SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN by RICHARD CRASHAW THE MODERN MAJOR-GENERAL, FR. THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT ELEGIAC STANZAS by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH THE ALTAR STONE by RICHARD ALEXANDER PRAYER by EVGENY ABRAMOVICH BARATYNSKY |