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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: COUNTRY LIFE Matches Found: 613 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BACK-LYING FARM, by JAMES LOGIE ROBERTSON Poem Text First Line: A back-lying farm but lately taken in Last Line: She twined the long wan grasses in her hat. Alternate Author Name(s): Haliburton, Hugh Subject(s): Country Life A BALLAD TO MRS. CATHERINE FLEMING IN LONDON, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From me, who whilom sung the town Last Line: With a fa-la &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Country Life A BUCOLICK BETWIXT TWO: LACON AND THYRSIS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a kiss or two, confess Last Line: Earth afford ye flowers to strew. Subject(s): Country Life A CHRISTMAS SCENE; OR, LOVE IN THE COUNTRY, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hill blast comes howling through leaf-rifted trees Last Line: What care I? -- my darling's entwined in my arms. Subject(s): Christmas; Country Life; Love; Nativity, The A CLEARING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What lies at the end of enticing Subject(s): Country Life; Landscape A COTTAGE MONARCHY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should he ask to share the fate Last Line: Of love's successful government. Subject(s): Country Life A COTTAGE SCENE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a cradle at a cottage door Last Line: From earth to heaven. Subject(s): Country Life; Holidays; Thanksgiving A COUNTRY BOY IN WINTER, by SARAH ORNE JEWETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind may blow the snow about Last Line: But I shall stay at home. Subject(s): Country Life; Winter A COUNTRY CAROL, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There the patient oxen were, by the ass's stall Last Line: In the open country-land of my good lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Christmas; Country Life; Easter; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Nativity, The; The Resurrection A COUNTRY CHURCH, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: I think god seeks this house, serenely white Last Line: And christ grew up in rural galilee. Subject(s): Churches; Country Life; Cathedrals A COUNTRY DANCE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fiddle away, old time - / fiddle away, old fellow! Last Line: Fiddle them, dear old fellow! Subject(s): Country Life; Dancing & Dancers; Love A COUNTRY LIFE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird that I don't know, Last Line: Sees, in the moonlight, graves Subject(s): Birds; Country Life A COUNTRY LIFE: TO HIS BROTHER, MR. THEO. HERRICL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou Last Line: Nor feare, or wish your dying day. Subject(s): Country Life A COUNTRY PATHWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I come upon it suddenly, alone Last Line: That wanders home to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Nature; Roads; Seasons; Fall; Paths; Trails A COUNTRY SUMMER PASTORAL; FROM ETYMOLOGICAL DEDUCTIONS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I would flee from the city's rule and law Last Line: Of grasshoppers out to grass Subject(s): Country Life;nonsense;summer A DIALOGUE BETWEEN THYRSIS AND DORINDA, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When death shall part [or, snatch] us from these kids Last Line: So shall we smoothly pass away in sleep. Subject(s): Country Life A DIALOGUE BETWEEN TWO SHEPHERDS IN PRAISE OF ASTRAEA, by MARY SIDNEY HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing divine astrea's praise Last Line: But silence, nought can praise her. Alternate Author Name(s): Pembroke, Countess Of Subject(s): Country Life A DRIVE IN THE COUNTRY, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the ditch by the dirt back road Subject(s): Country Life; Automobile Drivers A FICTION HOW CUPID MADE A NYMPH WOUND HERSELF, by A. W. Poem Text First Line: It chanced of late a shepherd's swain Last Line: And laughs that pleasant sight to see. Subject(s): Country Life; Love A LIFE IN THE COUNTRY (STANZAS FOR MUSIC), by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! A life in the country how joyous Last Line: "though, &c." Subject(s): Country Life A LITTLE LAME BOY'S VIEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On 'scursion-days - an' shows - an' Last Line: They ain't no bad folks anywheres! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Boys; Carnivals; Country Life; Physical Disabilities; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples A LIZ-TOWN HUMORIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Settin' round the stove, last night Last Line: And you'd ort o' heerd 'em yell! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Country Life; Watermelons A MARLOW MADRIGAL, by JOSEPH ASHBY-STERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, bisham banks are fresh and fair Last Line: At good old marlow town! Subject(s): Country Life A MOUNTAIN PICTURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We sat within the cabin old Last Line: By mountain walls surrounded. Subject(s): Country Life; Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A NEW SONG OF THE MILL, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: In youth we sang 'the song of the mill' Last Line: And heaving booms across the bay. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses A NYMPH'S PASSION, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love, and he loves me again Last Line: If love, or fear, would let me tell his name. Subject(s): Country Life A PASTORAL DIALOGUE: SHEPHERD, NYMPH, CHORUS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mossy bank they pressed Last Line: Grief interrupted speech with tears' supplies. Subject(s): Country Life A PASTORAL OF TASSO, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy golden age Last Line: Comes once to set, it makes eternal night. Subject(s): Country Life; Grief; Life; Love; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness A PEASANT WOMAN'S SONG, by DION BOUCICAULT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm very happy where I am Last Line: Oh! Nobody but me. Alternate Author Name(s): Bourcicault, Dion; Boursiquot, Dionysius Lardner Variant Title(s): The Exiled Mother Subject(s): Country Life; Exiles; Homesickness A PRAYER FOR LIGHT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the country light, o lord Last Line: And make my blindman's holidays. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blindness; Country Life; God; Light; Prayer; Visually Handicapped A RUSTIC ODE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Well may poets make a fuss Last Line: This endless meal of brick. Variant Title(s): Ode. Imitated From Horace Subject(s): Country Life A SIMPLE SERMON FOR COUNTRY COTTAGERS, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A workman worth your weight in gold Last Line: Who works for him his wage is sure! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Country Life; Houses A SUMMER EVENING, SELECTION, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the deep, the miry lane Last Line: And join the general troop of sleep. Subject(s): Country Life A VERMONT COUNTRY STORE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our village store will always be Last Line: Made thirteen thousand 'round that store. Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Country Life; Merchants; Mountain Life - Vermont; Retail Trade; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers A VERMONT RASCAL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most every town has got, I guess ...' Last Line: He'll have no gravestone when he's gone. Subject(s): Country Life; Vermont A WALK, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cow-honeybourne, that dost survey Last Line: The priestess and the bread. Subject(s): Country Life; Courtship; Walking A WIFE EXPLAINS WHY SHE LIKES THE COUNTRY, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because those cows in the bottomland are black and white, colors Subject(s): Country Life; Likes & Dislikes A WISH, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine be a cot beside the hill Last Line: And point with taper spire to heaven. Subject(s): Country Life; Home; Wishes A WOODLAND SEAT, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within this pleasant wood, beside the lane Last Line: Life may meet joys where few intruders be. Subject(s): Country Life A WORKING SMITH ALL OTHER TRADES EXCELS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "honest, and just, and loyal to the crown" Subject(s): Blacksmiths;country Life ABOUT THE SECOND-LAST ROSE OF SUMMER, by CHARLES PLUMB Poem Source First Line: The dog-rose and the marguerite Subject(s): Country Life ADDRESS TO HIS NATIVE VALE, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On thy calm joys with what delight I dream Last Line: They strip thy shades, -- thy shades so dear to me! Subject(s): Country Life ADMIRE NOT, SHEPHERD'S BOY, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life AGAINST INFECTION AND THE HAND OF WAR, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life ALBINO, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When virgil thought no shame the doric reed Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Subject(s): Country Life ALETHLA ARISES FROM THE CORPSE OF FIDA'S HIND, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As that arabian bird (whom all admire) Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life AMINTA, SELS., by TORQUATO TASSO Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Italian Renaissance AN ANTHEM IN HEAT, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now praise the lord, both moon and sun Last Line: And bids us live at evenfall. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; God; Nature; Praise; Summer; Wind; Sunset; Twilight AN EYE OF A QUEEN AND A TESTICLE OF A BULL, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We each one wear moccasins & a strip of deerskin Last Line: Loving an enchantment of islands Subject(s): Country Life; Friends, Religious Society Of; Hunting; Property; Quakers; Hunters; Possessions AN INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Already, close by our summer dwelling Last Line: Their dower of beauty from thy glad looks. Subject(s): April; Country Life; Holidays; Trees AN ODE, SELECTION, by RICHARD FANSHAWE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Only the island which we sow Last Line: "to be imbued." Subject(s): Country Life ANAMNESIS AND NOSTALGIA; TO LIONEL JOHNSON, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The traveller in a burning clime Last Line: And something of a mortal pang. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902); Longing; Nature; Nostalgia; English APARTMENT DWELLER, COUNTRY BRED, by KATHERINE R. MARSH Poem Text First Line: I want a row of hollyhocks and spotted tiger lilies Last Line: To go back home again! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Homesickness; Urban Life APRIL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black north wind that chills Last Line: When I was young! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): April; Country Life; Memory; Nature; Spring; Youth ARCADES, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look nymphs, and shepherds look Last Line: All arcadia hath not seen. Subject(s): Country Life ARCADIA, SELS., by PHILIP SIDNEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Variant Title(s): The Countess Of Pembroke's Arcadia, Sels Subject(s): Country Life ARRIVING IN THE COUNTRY AGAIN, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white house is silent. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Country Life ASPIRATIONS OF A COUNTRY LAD, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, were I but a city boy Last Line: It is not life to live. Subject(s): Country Life ASTROPHEL'S SONG OF PHILLIDA AND CORYDON, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair in a morn, (o fairest morn!) Last Line: And sunday shall be holiday. Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses AT AUNTY'S HOUSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One time, when we'z at aunty's house Last Line: When we et on the porch! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Aunts; Cherry Trees; Country Life AT THE TOP OF THE LADDER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: At the top of the ladder %half wild cats Last Line: It a place to whisper Subject(s): Country Life ATLANTIC GRAIN, by CHARLES PLUMB Poem Source First Line: Men shall eat bread herefrom Subject(s): Country Life AUNT LIZZIE IN WHO'S WHO, by E. BRIGHTWEN Poem Source First Line: Name and title: aunt lizzie. A lover of Subject(s): Country Life AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN GREEN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At summer camp, / I wrapped my arms around Last Line: In my own small commonwealth Subject(s): Camping; Trees; Bronx, New York City; Country Life; City & Town Life; Nature; Camps; Summer Camps AUTUMN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time of thinned and reddened leaves Last Line: When autumn wanes in dark dismantled glades. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Leaves; Seasons; Fall AUTUMN IN THE PARK, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here by the baring bough Last Line: Raking up leaves. Subject(s): Country Life AUTUMN SERENADE, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Before the tears of autumn shed Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Country Life AUTUMN. THE THIRD PASTORAL, ORHYLAS AND AEGON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays Last Line: And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade. Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Seasons; Fall AVON VALLEY, by WILLIAM COBBETT Poem Source First Line: In steering across the down, I came to a Subject(s): Country Life AVRIL, by REMY BELLEAU Poem Source First Line: Avril, l'honneur et des bois Subject(s): Country Life BEAUTY AND THE BIRD, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She fluted with her mouth as when one sips Last Line: Of inner voices praise her golden head. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Bullfinches; Country Life BEGINNERS LUCK, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: With the sun in my eyes Last Line: When I could not see Subject(s): Country Life BIRD-LOVING DON, by R. H. COON Poem Source First Line: W. H. Hudson once said of warde fowler Subject(s): Country Life BLACKMWORE MAIDENS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The primrose in the sheade do blow Last Line: "in blackmwore by the stour." Subject(s): Women; Country Life BLEAKE'S HOUSE IN BLACKMWORE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John bleake he had a bit o' ground Last Line: To merry bleake o' blackmwore. Subject(s): Country Life BOILING SAP AT NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our sugarhouse was jest a shack Last Line: That syrup made at dead of night! Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating; Mountains; Soup; Vermont; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife Last Line: Chorus— Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BRIGHT EYED GOOD BYES, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Birds %busily Last Line: Same as always %theyre gone Subject(s): Country Life BUCKEYE LUCKY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Talk about lucky %buckeye lucky Last Line: Lucky old buckeye %lucky old me Subject(s): Country Life BUCOLIC COMEDY: COUNTRY COUSIN: VARIATION 2, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In summer when the rose-bushes Last Line: The gardener ties in childish posies. Subject(s): Country Life CAELICA (COMPLETE, 1-109), by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Country Life; Cupid CAELICA: 75, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the time when herbs and flowers Last Line: Who travels constancy can tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Variant Title(s): Caelica And Philocell Subject(s): Country Life CALLING TO THE RECLUSE, by LU JI Poem Source First Line: At daybreak I feel uneasy at my heart Last Line: If honor and wealth are hard to devise, %let me unhitch my team and do what I will Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life CALLING TO THE RECLUSE: 1, by ZUO SI Poem Source First Line: I leaned on my staff and called to the recluse Last Line: As I pace here, pausing, my feet grow weary - %I would cast down the pins of my officer's cap Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life CATHERINE, by CHARLES PLUMB Poem Source First Line: Catherine looked, and the night rode by Subject(s): Country Life CHAINS INVISIBLE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies in my garden grow Last Line: To steal the world's delight from me! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Country Life; London; Socialism CHATSWORTH! THY STATELY MANSION, AND THE PRIDE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The extremes of favoured life, may honour both Subject(s): Country Life CHAUCER'S FLOWER, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now have I thereto this condicioun Subject(s): Country Life CHINESE PROVERB, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The well-being of a people is like a tree Subject(s): Country Life; Proverbs CHIP OF FLINT, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: See this %too thin Last Line: From an unknown hand Subject(s): Country Life CITIZEN ON THE COUNTRYMAN, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord how fine the fields be, what sweet living 'tis in the country Subject(s): Country Life CITY BLOOD AND COUNTRY JAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Clarence percy smith de vere / was a youth of high degree Last Line: Pays to learn his name is mud Subject(s): Country Life;grief;pity;sports; Sorrow;sadness CITY LIMITS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you consider the radiance, that it does not withold Last Line: And fear lit by the breadth of such calmly turns to praise Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Country Life CITY STREETS AND COUNTRY ROADS, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The city has streets Last Line: Oh, take me away %to the country again! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life CITY WIFE, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almost before the sun has touched the fields Last Line: Till over the hill the horses slowly climb. Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CLORINDA AND DAMON, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damon, come drive thy flocks this way Last Line: For all the world is our pan's quire. Subject(s): Country Life CLORUS' SONG, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Silly swain, sit down and weep Subject(s): Country Life CLOUDS WILL SAIL AND WINDS WILL BLOW, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Source Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Country Life CLUCKING AWAY THE DAY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Banana cream pie clouds Last Line: Clucking away the day Subject(s): Country Life COAL COUNTRY, by JULIE DUNLOP Poem Source First Line: Rhubarb. The side yard of a house that was once hers Last Line: The petunias and geraniums gone Subject(s): Coal Mines And Miners; Country Life COLERIDGE'S SKY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O lady! In this wan and heartless mood Subject(s): Country Life COLIN, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gentle maid, consent to be Last Line: Quit for these thy liberty. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Ticknell, Thomas (1686-1740); Weddings; Husbands; Wives COME, HERE IS ADIEU TO THE CITY, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Return to reap and sing Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Country Life COMPLEAT ANGLER AND 'THE NATURAL HISTORY OF ...', by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Country Life CONFIDENCE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The mosquito is %sneaky Last Line: Confidence %is all about Subject(s): Country Life CONTENTMENT, by FLORA M. KENISTON Poem Text First Line: People who live where the sound of the ocean Last Line: Are sweetest of music which lulls me to sleep. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Nature CONTEST, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woodman, fisher, and a swain Subject(s): Country Life CORIDON'S SONG (IN ISAAK WALTON'S 'COMPLEAT ANGLER'), by JOHN CHALKHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the sweet contentment Last Line: Turn countryman with me. Variant Title(s): The Praise Of A Countryman's Life Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life COTTAGE LEFT FOR LONDON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The covert walk, the mossy apple-trees Last Line: Water unfit to drink and air to breathe. Subject(s): Country Life; London COTTAGE MUSK, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or in caprice or through neglect Last Line: You'll find it nowhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Herbs; Dead, The COTTAGE SONG, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Morning and night I bring Last Line: Above my lavender. Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY AFTERNOON, by FLORENCE CROW Poem Text First Line: I had forgotten wheatfields Last Line: On a country air. Variant Title(s): Let Me Remember Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY AND TOWN, by CHARLES MORRIS Poem Text First Line: In london I never know what I'd be at Last Line: O, give me the sweet shady side of pall mall. Variant Title(s): The Contrast Subject(s): Country Life; Towns COUNTRY AND TOWN, by ARTHUR HOBSON QUINN Poem Source First Line: Summer's reign is nearly past Subject(s): Country Life; Towns COUNTRY BEDROOM, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My room's a square and candle-lighted boat Last Line: Far off one owl amidst the waves of dark Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY CLERGY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see them working in old rectories Last Line: Or out of time will correct this Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Clergy; Country Life COUNTRY COMMISSIONS, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cousin charles, please to send down to-morrow Last Line: I cannot do half what you wish! Subject(s): Country Life; Parks; Poetry & Poets COUNTRY CONCERT, by CLAIRE PUNEKY Poem Source First Line: Cicada-led Last Line: While on a country porch %I sit and rock Subject(s): Country Life; Music And Musicians COUNTRY COURTSHIP, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I gazed on a beautiful picture Last Line: Thrilled with young dreams of love. Subject(s): Country Life; Courtship; Paintings And Painters COUNTRY CURES, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are places, where you might have been sent Last Line: Of their gaunt houses; or see their white %faces setting on a blank day Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY DANGER, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, as two little brothers, who address'd Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY DOCTOR, by DANA KNEELAND AKERS Poem Text First Line: Today, in that old junk-pile down the hill Last Line: "how could you guess -- you never rode in one!" Subject(s): Country Life; Memory; Physicians; Doctors COUNTRY FUNERAL, by AMY LEE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: This is the greatest day you ever knew Last Line: You have known fame at last -- among the dead. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Funerals; Life; Prayer; Dead, The; Burials COUNTRY HOUSES, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Country houses crack their knuckles, click their teeth Last Line: The first shot ricochets off the closet door Subject(s): Country Life; Houses COUNTRY LANDSCAPE, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This involves more than just the water standing Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY LARGESSE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring a message from the stream Last Line: Round me I scatter. Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY LASSIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In simmer when the hay was mawn Last Line: "what mair hae queens upon a throne?" Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY MAN, SELS., by GEORGE FAREWELL Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Men; Peasantry COUNTRY MIRACLE, by ABBIE HUSTON EVANS Poem Source First Line: As I came over the rise by stewart's ash Last Line: We met, blind allies punctual to the minute, %as I came over the rise by stewart's rise Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRY MUSIC, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We sit in the rural gloaming Last Line: From the sounds we hear at home! Subject(s): Country Life; Music & Musicians COUNTRY ROAD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the painting that hangs in our dining room Last Line: Little things of no great importance, but I'm %aware of them Subject(s): Country Life; Paintings And Painters; Roads COUNTRY SALE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the thin green sky, the twilight day Last Line: So beautiful, all went for an old song. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Auctions; Country Life; England; English COUNTRY SEAT, by JAMES ARTHUR Poem Source First Line: With the farmhouse, my accountant acquired a hilltop barn Last Line: I cannot see anything, really: four pale lights against the green Subject(s): Barns; Country Life; Hunting COUNTRY SUMMER, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the rich cherry, whose sleek wood Last Line: Morning and evening in the corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRY WAYS, by MARCIA LEE MASTERS Poem Source First Line: Either to keep the thinking in Last Line: Slowly, the pines drew night up the banks, %the silence of books settled over the hills Variant Title(s): Impressions Of My Fathe Subject(s): Country Life; Fathers COUNTRY'S RECREATIONS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRYSIDE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apart from branches in courtyards and small stones Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRYSIDE IN NEW ENGLAND, by MABEL A. METCALF Poem Source First Line: From mill and mart to peace of god's rich realm Last Line: With splendor of the universal source Subject(s): Country Life COUNTRYSIDE: 12, by JOSE GOMES FERREIRA Poem Source First Line: So many flowers - blue, green, white, yellow, red and the lilies Last Line: Fragrant with the wonder of existence %and the dream of all natural things Subject(s): Colors; Country Life; Flowers; Nature COW PIE JEWELS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Plop %in the middle of the path Last Line: To swoop up the jewels %and leave the pie Subject(s): Country Life CROSSING, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Beside the road %a rabbit crouches to spring Last Line: I wish they had no road to cross Subject(s): Country Life CYNTHIA, by EDWARD DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Amidst the fairest mountain tops Last Line: But yet a woman's heart.' Subject(s): Country Life; Love DAMON THE MOWER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hark how the mower damon sung Last Line: For death thou art a mower too. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Dead, The DAMON'S LAMENT, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This world is made a hell Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Subject(s): Country Life DAY IN THE COUNTRY, by BARRY SILESKY Poem Source First Line: The attraction's undeniable. The haystacks lined up Last Line: Find the right distance to see Subject(s): Cities; Country Life DECEMBER'S THRUSH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: High on an oaken twig, apart Subject(s): Country Life DENIAL, by LANCASTER POLLARD Poem Source First Line: It is not down this road I walk Subject(s): Country Life; Nature DESCRIPTION OF A MUSICAL CONSORT OF BIRDS, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two nights thus pass'd: the lily-handed morn Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Variant Title(s): The Concer Subject(s): Country Life DESCRIPTION OF ELIZIUM, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A paradise on earth is found Subject(s): Country Life DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTRY'S RECREATIONS, by HENRY WOTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a bank as I sat a-fishing Subject(s): Country Life DEUTERONOMY 32: 9-12. THE FIRST FLIGHT, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: For the lord's portion is his people Last Line: And there was no strange god with him Subject(s): Country Life DIRECTIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory DIRECTIVE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back out of all this now too much for us Last Line: Drink and be whole again beyond confusion Subject(s): Country Life; Houses; Memory DOGS, by ROBERT WINTHROP WATSON Poem Source First Line: I hear them bark outside my window, dogs Last Line: Unlock his gate. He looks long-eared and furry. %I hear him growl, snap his jaws. I bark back Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Dogs DOTH THE HAWK FLY BY THY WIDOM, AND STRETCH, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source Subject(s): Country Life DREAMS, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond, beyond the mountain line Last Line: Lies somewhere o'er their edges. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life EAMONN AN CHNUIC, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now who is without Last Line: Where strangers are kinder than kin! Subject(s): Country Life EARLY MORNING AT BARGIS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clear air and grassy lea Subject(s): Country Life; Morning; Nature ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 32. RURAL CEREMONY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Closing the sacred book which long has fed Last Line: And hooker's voice the spectacle approves! Subject(s): Country Life; Sacraments ECLOGUE, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yea; but no man is still Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 1, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tityrus, there you lie in the beech-tree shade Last Line: Already there's smoke you can see from the neighbors' chimneys %and the shadows of the hills are len Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 10, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Help me, arethusa, to complete %this my last task, a song to sing for gallus Last Line: Go home, my full-fed goats, you've eaten your fill %the evening star is rising; it's time to go home Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 2, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Corydon fell in love with a beautiful boy Last Line: Binding the twigs together with pliant rushes %there'll be another alexis, if this one rejects you Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 3, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whose flock is this? Is it meliboeus's flock? Last Line: But the time has come to close the sluices, boys %for now the fields have drunk their fill of song Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 4, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sicilian muses, sing we greater things Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 4, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sicilian muses, sing a nobler music %for orchard trees and humble tamarisks Last Line: No gods will welcome at their festive table %nor any goddess to her amorous bower Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 5. MENALCAS, MOPSUS, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mopsus, let us sit down together here Last Line: Refused, though then he deserved my love. The knots %are evenly spaced, the rings are brass, menalca Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 6, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I began to write, my muse did not Last Line: Time to be counted, and time for him to set out %over a sky reluctant to yield the day Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 7, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All underneath a tall straight holme, whyleere Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 7, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Daphnis, one day, was sitting in the shade Last Line: Striving to win, was the loser, and since that time %it has been corydon's, corydon's name we cry Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 8, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The muse of the shepherds alphesiboeus and damon Last Line: Can I believe it, or is it that lovers dream? %cease now, my charms, my daphnis has come home! Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE 9, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Moeris, why are you taking the path to town? Last Line: No more of that; let's just go on our way %the time for singing will be when menalcas comes Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life ECLOGUE ON NOBLE ASSEMBLIES REVIVED ON COTWSOLD HILLS BY ROBERT DOVER, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What clodpates, thenot, are our british swains! Last Line: To saint him in the shepherd's calendar. Subject(s): Cotswold Hills, England; Country Life; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements ECLOGUE: 2, by GIOVANNU BATTISTA SPAGNUOLI Poem Source First Line: A shepherd, whom thou knowst full wed, to make it playne in sight Subject(s): Country Life EGLOGA TERTIA, SELS., by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasant place is here to talke: good coridon begyn Alternate Author Name(s): Goche, Barnaby; Goghe, Barnaby; Gouche, Barnaby Subject(s): Country Life EGLOGUE INTITULED CUDDY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A litle heard-groome (for he was no bett') Subject(s): Country Life ELOISE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: I did it %I winked at eloise Last Line: This call for another wink %tomorrow Subject(s): Country Life ENGLAND'S HELICON: THIRSIS' PRAISE OF HIS MISTRESS, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a hill that graced the plain Last Line: Astra can bless those blessings, earth and all. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life ENGLISH VILLAGE, by WILLIAM COBBETT Poem Source First Line: The houses of the village are, in great ... Subject(s): Country Life EPODE: 2, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How happy in his low degree Last Line: And put it out again. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life EPODE: 2, SELS., by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With such delights he can forget Last Line: The full extent of rural cares Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life EPODE: 2. HAPPY IS THE COUNTRYMAN, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Happy's that man that is from city care Last Line: I' th' kalends put it forth again Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life EPODE: 2. THE PRAISES OF A COUNTRY LIFE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy is he, that from all business clear Last Line: At the calends, puts all out again. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life ESPILUS AND THERION, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tune up my voyce, a higher note I yeeld Subject(s): Country Life ETERNITY BLUES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just had the old dodge in the shop Last Line: To reach me. I drove on. Then I bust out crying Subject(s): Blues (mood); Country Life; Music & Musicians EXPATRIATE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: City towers that have prisoned me Last Line: It will not be a dream! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life EXPLORER, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The magpie explores the cowdung Last Line: In the land of forever young. Subject(s): Country Life; Youth FABLES ANCIENT AND MODERN: TO MY HONOURED KINSMAN, JOHN DRIDEN, OF, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How blest is he who leads a country life Last Line: Earth keeps the body, verse preserves the fame Variant Title(s): To My Honoured Kinsman John Dryden, Of Chesterton; To My Honoured Kinsman, John Dride Subject(s): Country Life; Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Poetry And Poets; Politics FAERIE QUEENE (COMPLETE), by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo I the man, whose muse whilome did maske Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabbaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights And Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry And Poets; Sleep; Virtue FALL COMES IN BACK-COUNTRY VERMONT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deader they die here, or at least Last Line: I touch the hand there on the pillow Subject(s): Vermont; Country Life; Autumn FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD, by NIXON WATERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to me I'd like to go Last Line: And say, now, how does it seem to you? Alternate Author Name(s): Martin, Peter Subject(s): Country Life; Nature FIELD GUIDE TO SOUTHERN VIRGINIA, by FORREST GANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True as the circumference Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Virginia (state) FIELD GUIDE TO SOUTHERN VIRGINIA, by FORREST GANDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True as the circumference Last Line: Uncover a nest of spring salamanders Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Virginia (state) FIELDS WERE OVERSPREAD WITH FLOWERS, by J. M. Poem Source Subject(s): Country Life FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: 20. A HAPPY MARRIAGE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jack and joan [or, jacke and jone], they think no ill Last Line: Securer lives the silly swain. Variant Title(s): Fortunati Nimium;rustic Joys Subject(s): Class Struggle; Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Marriage; Simplicity; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FIRST SNOW, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old black dog comes in one evening Subject(s): Snow; Dogs; Country Life FISHERMAN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Fishing off a riverbank Last Line: Is the only way to go Subject(s): Country Life FOOTPRINTS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Once %the beast paused here Last Line: To prove I was here Subject(s): Country Life FOR ONE RETURED INTO THE COUNTRY, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, lying world, with all thy Subject(s): Country Life; Nature FOR THESE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An acre of land between the shore and the hills Last Line: And also that something may be sent %to be connected with, I ask of fate Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens And Gardening; Prayer FOREST OF CHILDHOOD, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Barefoot from tussock to tussock I ran Last Line: Like a crane in spring Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Country Life FOURTH OF JULY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When july fourth was getting near Last Line: And tell the rest another year. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Vermont; Streams; Creeks; Independence Day; Liberty FOX'S DINGLE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take now a country mood Last Line: In snow-cool water. Variant Title(s): A Country Mood Subject(s): Country Life FROG COUNTRY, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: Where there's a will Last Line: With a pardon in my pocket Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Frogs FROM A CAR WINDOW, by JOSIE FRAZEE CAPPLEMAN Poem Text First Line: A glimpse and a glance and a fathomless gaze Last Line: Shall arise from the ranks of the overalls. Subject(s): Boys; Country Life FRONT PORCH, by LESLIE NELSON JENNINGS Poem Source First Line: People who live in cities never know Last Line: Who can remember many things with pride, %who built front porches neighbourly and wide Subject(s): Country Life; Great Lakes FROSTING, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The rain is crooked as it hits the window Last Line: And good riddance too, nasty old coot Subject(s): Country Life; Old Age; Rain FRUSTRATE WAVE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Moved by the mighty thoughts men crave Subject(s): Country Life GAR, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night the river house swayed Last Line: Like a memory at the light. Subject(s): Country Life; Fish & Fishing; Southern States; Anglers; South (u.s.) GARDENER, by RABINDRANATH TAGORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Over the green and yellow rice fields Subject(s): Country Life GAZING OVER THE COUNTRYSIDE, by YIN RENRONG Poem Source First Line: Gazing over the countryside, there is no mountain scenery Last Line: Beneath them there are people strolling by Subject(s): Country Life GENESIS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest Subject(s): Country Life GENESIS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: All things created, moses writes Subject(s): Country Life; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mnemonics; Mothers; Sleep; Women - Bible GENESIS 9: 8-17. THE FIRST RAINBOW, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And god spake unto noah, and to his sons Last Line: I have established between and me and all flesh that is upon the earth Subject(s): Country Life GENTLE SHEPHERD, SELS., by ALLAN RAMSAY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life GIFT AND COUNTRY IN THE FALL: A LONG-DISTANCE ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morrison. Hello! Hello! Is that you, wetherbee? Last Line: Later, you'd better look for us in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Country Life; Seasons; Fall; Urban Life GIGGING ON ALLATOONA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light bleeding onto pines Last Line: Rolling away from the boat far out across the black water. Subject(s): Boats; Country Life; Hunting; Men; Hunters GOING CROSSLOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who says with solemn pride Last Line: "that ""wheel"" themselves to death." Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Migrant Labor; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers GOLDEN AGE, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The golden age was first; which uncompeld Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Country Life GOLDEN AGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Come grant me, come lend me Subject(s): Country Life GOLDEN RULES FOR THE YOUNG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in batting, hold your bat upright" Last Line: A butter-fingers is worst of all Subject(s): Country Life;cricket (game);sports GOOD COUNTRY PEOPLE, REVISED, by ALEXANDRA SOCARIDES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes, I sit in the silo-topped barn Last Line: My plae-blue joy, says: we are not our own light Subject(s): Country Life GREEN RIVER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When breezes are soft and skies are fair Last Line: That won my heart in my greener years. Subject(s): Country Life; Great Barrington, Massachusetts HADLING LESSONS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: It easy he say %grab his tail with one hand Last Line: But he cant stop laughinh Subject(s): Country Life HANDIWORK OF FLORA, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Flora, well met, and for thy taken pain Subject(s): Country Life HAREBELL AND PANSY, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the round throat her little head Last Line: And her eyes fill - for whom? Subject(s): Country Life HARPALUS' COMPLAINT OF PHILLIDA'S LOVE BESTOWED ON CORIN, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phillida was a fair maid Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Subject(s): Country Life HARPALUS' COMPLAINT ON PHILLIDAES LOVE BESTOWED ON CORIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Phyllida was a fair maid Last Line: Hath murdered with disdain Subject(s): Country Life HASTINGS' SONNETS: 1, by SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old harry hastings! Of thy forest life Last Line: And echoes dancing round repeat their ecstacies. Subject(s): Country Life; Hastings, Henry (1551-1650) HEARTSEASE COUNTRY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The far green westward heavens are bland Last Line: At every turn on every way. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature HELPSTON GREEN, SELS., by JOHN CLARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life HILL AND VALE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Day by day the man in the vale Last Line: And one to see his vale below. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Country Life HIPPOLYTUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great among men, and not unnamed am I %the cyprian Last Line: For when great men die %a mighty name and a bitter cry %rise up from a nation calling Subject(s): Country Life; Death HIS CONTENT IN THE COUNTRY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, here I live with what my board Last Line: To very few, or else to none. Subject(s): Country Life HIS GAY RETREAT, by MARY FARRIES Poem Text First Line: Deep in a valley flanked by rolling hills Last Line: He sought his gay retreat -- found peace again. Subject(s): Country Life HIS WISDOM: 6 YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His feet whene'er they walk abroad Last Line: Finds country in the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Roads; Wisdom; Childhood; Paths; Trails HOBBINOL, OR THE RURAL GAMES, SELS., by WILLIAM SOMERVILE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What old menalcas at his feast reveal'd Last Line: Great sultan of the vale Alternate Author Name(s): Somerville, William Subject(s): Country Life; Games; Milton, John (1608-1674) HOLE IN THE GROUND, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: What creature %tilled the grass Last Line: Always makes me wonder Subject(s): Country Life HOLIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: About my window in a wreath Last Line: My dreams are drenched with attar of rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Flowers; Holidays; Nature; Roses HOME GROWN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Tenderly %finger lingering Last Line: Nothing beats home grown Subject(s): Country Life HOMEBUYER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was so glad to be living in my own house again Last Line: And knows the value of a dependable truck. Subject(s): Country Life; Home; Montana I PRAY YOU, WHAT IS'T O'CLOCK?, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life I WANT THE HORIZON, by THEODORA BATES COGSWELL Poem Text First Line: That brief hill slope uprears so close! Last Line: Draw home my heart! Subject(s): Country Life; Earth; Sea; World; Ocean IDEA: EIGHTH EGLOG, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shepheard, why creepe we in this lowly vaine Subject(s): Country Life IDYLL 20. NETEHEARD, by THEOCRITUS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eunica skornde me, when her I would have sweetly kist Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Country Life; Kisses; Love - Unrequited IDYLL 20. NETEHEARD, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Eunica skornde me, when her I would have sweetly kist Last Line: In cittie nor on hill, but all the night must sleep alone Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Country Life; Kisses; Love - Unrequited IDYLL 8, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With lovely netehearde daphnis on the hills, they saie Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Country Life IN CHEEVER COUNTRY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half an hour north of grand central Subject(s): Cheever, John (1912-1982); Country Life; Railroads; Suburbs; Railways; Trains IN CHEEVER COUNTRY, by DANA GIOIA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Half an hour north of grand central Last Line: To the modest places which contain our lives Subject(s): Cheever, John (1912-1982); Country Life; Railroads; Suburbs IN CITY PENT, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Far from the mountains and the meadows I Last Line: And leafy slumbers filled with pleasant dreams! Subject(s): Country Life IN CITY STREETS, by ADA SMITH Poem Text First Line: Yonder in the heather there's a bed for sleeping Last Line: Through the peaty soil and tinkling heather-bells. Subject(s): Country Life; Homeless; Homesickness; London IN ENGLAND, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in rain I sat today Last Line: Is never far from sailing. Subject(s): Country Life; England; English IN JANUARY, 1962, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his hat on the table before him Last Line: Near the soft gray felt hat on the table Subject(s): Grandparents; Death; Winter; Country Life; Old Age IN JIMMY'S GRILL, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The girl in blue-jean shorts\ Last Line: Where a beer gut rolls like a melon on the green pool table. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Bars & Bartenders; Country Life; Country Music; Sex; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons IN PRAISE OF A COUNTRY LIFE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bliss which souls enjoy above Last Line: But happy he possesses more of solid life. Subject(s): Country Life IN STONY COUNTRY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere else than these bare uplands dig wells Last Line: Pillows like these stones for dreaming of angels Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Sheep IN THE COUNTRY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This life is sweetest; in this wood Last Line: Behind me creeps a groan or sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Country Life IN THE COUNTRY IN LOVE WITH COLOR', by ROSEANN LLOYD Poem Source Last Line: In the country in love with color Subject(s): Colors; Country Life IN TIME OF 'THE BREAKING OF NATIONS', by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only a man harrowing clods / in a slow silent walk Last Line: Ere their story die. Subject(s): Bible; Country Life; Religion; World War I; Theology; First World War IN TOWN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere there's a willow budding Last Line: When's the next train out of town? Subject(s): Country Life; Railroads; Towns; Travel; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips INFIELD CHATTER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Pitcher shortstop %look at him Last Line: A better target %he going to Subject(s): Country Life INITIATION POEM FOR TWO VOICES, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: You swear he gentle %hey relax Last Line: But she too smart to ride him Subject(s): Country Life INSCRIPTION ON A SUMMER-HOUSE; BELONGING TO MR. WEST, by GILBERT WEST Poem Text First Line: Not wrapp'd in smoky london's sulphurous clouds Last Line: And now the country, now the town, enjoy. Subject(s): Country Life INSPIRATION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should you ask where nawadaha Subject(s): Country Life INVITATION TO PETERHEAD, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye, who for sweets that never cloy Last Line: Instruction, and the poet pleasure. Subject(s): Country Life INVITATION TO THE COUNTRY, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now 'tis spring on wood and wold Last Line: And in the breast of man as well. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Seasons; Spring IVINGHOW HILL, by GEORGE ROBINS Poem Source First Line: Here, where three counties join hands in Subject(s): Country Life JAMMING WITH THE BAND AT THE VFW, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I played old country and western Last Line: And rhinestone earrings, moving suddenly toward me. Subject(s): Atlanta, Georgia; Country Dances; Country Life; Country Music; Poetry & Poets JOB 38: 22-32. A LITTLE CLOUD, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And elijah said unto ahab, get thee up Last Line: Canst thou guides arcturus with his sons? Subject(s): Country Life JOB 39: 5-25, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Who hath sent out the wild ass free? Or who hath Last Line: The thunder the captains, and the shooting Subject(s): Country Life JOB, SELS., by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? Subject(s): Country Life JOHN BARLEYCORN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were three kings into the east Last Line: Ne'er fail in old scotland! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Country Life; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse JOURNAL ENTRY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Found this perfect pond %deep in the wood Last Line: In the soft mud %I felt at home Subject(s): Country Life JOURNALIST'S COMMUNION, by J. L. GARVIN Poem Source First Line: Therefore am I still %a lover Subject(s): Country Life JOURNEY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, could I lay me down in this long grass Last Line: My feet to follow, and my heart to hold. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life JOYS OF THE COUNTRY: 4, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Lush lush, fragrant grasses in autumn green Last Line: Little boys know nothing of capped and robed officials Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Country Life KAROL'S KISS, by BEN JONSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O karol, karol! Call him back again Subject(s): Country Life KING HENRY VI, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Courage; Faith; History; Religion LA BELLE ETOILE, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: Oh, who will lodge at my inn tonight Subject(s): Country Life; Nature LADY'S SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A choir of bright beauties in spring did appear Last Line: When pan, and his son, and fair syrinx, return Variant Title(s): The May Queen; Phillis Unwilling; The Beautiful Lady Of The Ma Subject(s): Country Life; Exiles; James Ii, King Of Scotland (1430-1460) LAMENT FOR MELIBOEUS, by THOMAS WATSON Poem Source First Line: O tityrus, thy plaint is over-long Subject(s): Country Life LANDSCAPE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And as within a landscape that doth stand Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life LATE FEBRUARY, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The first warm day, Subject(s): Country Life; Winter LAUGHTER OF THE WAVES, by AESCHYLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 9. GOING TO THE FAIR, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet the sun has dried on hedge and furze Last Line: And biddy enters lisnamoy in pride; Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Festivals; Poverty; Fairs; Pageants LE BONHEUR DE CE MONDE, by CHRISTOPHE PLANTIN Poem Source First Line: A voir une maison commode, propre & belle Subject(s): Country Life LEAFY WARWICKSHIRE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why will your mind for ever go Last Line: For leafy warwickshire! Subject(s): Country Life; Warwickshire, England LEAVING CORKY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: I stand with the car door open Last Line: Leaving corky %im too sad to cry Subject(s): Country Life LEGACY, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had a rich old great-aunt Last Line: May she rest in heaven! Subject(s): Country Life LETTER FROM A HOMESICK TRAVELER TO A FELLOW NEW YORKER, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you could only hear the chatter Last Line: The wild cockatoos continue their wordless %conversation. And I envy them Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; New York City; Travel LISTEN! THE WIND IS RISING, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life LITTLE FLOWER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Little flower, I hold you here Last Line: But a child could do no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Country Life LIVING, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had my quiet time early in the morning Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Country Life; Relatives LOB, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At hawthorn-time in wiltshire travelling Last Line: Young jack perhaps, and now a wiltshireman %as he has oft been since his days began Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Country Life LOOKING DOWN INSTEAD OF UP, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Oh no %good bull nice bull Last Line: Thank you Subject(s): Country Life LOOKING UP INSTEAD OF DOWN, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Hawk %buzzard Last Line: Instead of %up Subject(s): Country Life LORD THE CREATOR, by JOHN BOWRING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath thy all-directing rod Subject(s): Country Life LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION B), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward Last Line: All seem to know what is for heaven alone. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Love - Nature Of LOVING VIRGINS COMPLAINT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: One morning when bright sol Subject(s): Country Life LYNCH-LAW, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The deed he had done was a terrible one Last Line: At eve, and cut it down. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Country Life; Death; Lynching; Violence; Mobs; Crowds; Dead, The MAID MARIAN, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lady did, it is true, once signalise ... Subject(s): Country Life MAILIED, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wie herrlich leuchtet Subject(s): Country Life MARGARITE IN AMERICA, SELS., by THOMAS LODGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life MARKET BOUND, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Mom reading %dad driving Last Line: Against the wind %market bound Subject(s): Country Life MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MASTER AND MAN, by ROBERT BELL Poem Source First Line: No, bob; I will not go a wals Subject(s): Country Life MATTHEW 16: 2-3. PROPHECY, by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: He answered and said unto them, when it is Last Line: Not discern the sign of the times Subject(s): Country Life MATTJEW 8: 3-8. A SOWER, by NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: And he spake many things unto them in Last Line: Some an hundred fold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold Subject(s): Country Life ME DOWN HERE, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Crows %conferring Last Line: Down here %envying crows Subject(s): Country Life MEETING ON A GRAVEL BAR, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: It just us snake %nobody here Last Line: It just us snake %let do it Subject(s): Country Life MELHILL FEAST, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye there, at the feast, by melhill's brow Last Line: Moon upon moon, an' year by year. Subject(s): Country Life; Feasts; Festivals; Hope; Love; Marriage; Time; Fairs; Pageants; Optimism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MENAPHON: DORON'S ECLOGUE, JOINED WITH CARMELA'S, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit down, carmela; here are cobs for kings Last Line: Come, kiss and part, for fear my mother comes. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations MENAPHON: MELICERTUS' MADRIGAL, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are my sheep without their wonted food? Last Line: Whereto this solace tends! Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations MERLIN'S APPLE TREES, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fair the gift to merlin given Subject(s): Country Life MILKMAID, by THOMAS NABBES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a dainty life the milkmaid leads Subject(s): Country Life MISPLACED SYMPATHY, by ZOE H. FELDWISCH Poem Text First Line: Poor city man! I pity you Last Line: Your unseeing eyes need my sympathy! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Sympathy; Urban Life; Empathy MONTANUS' SONNET: 1, FR. ROSALIND [ROSALYNDE], by THOMAS LODGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phoebe sat %sweet she sat Last Line: Phoebe yield, or I die: %shall true hearts be fancies fuel? Subject(s): Country Life MONTANUS' SONNET: 2, FR. ROSALIND [ROSALYNDE], by THOMAS LODGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A turtle sat upon a leafless tree Subject(s): Country Life MORNING IN THE ORCHARD (TO AN INVALID), by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They wake, they sing - both thrush and lass! Last Line: Than all our pears and apples are. Subject(s): Birds; Country Life; Love; Morning MOVING MY DWELLING: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Long I've wanted to dwell in south village Last Line: In rare writings we'll find a shared delight, %between us we'll work out problems of meaning Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life; Simplicity MRS. STUART'S RETIREMENT, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the court to the cottage convey me away Last Line: But retire from the world as I would to my rest. Subject(s): Country Life MY COUNTRY'S A ROCK, by JOSEP VICENC FOIX Poem Source First Line: My country's a rock Last Line: In a delta of streams Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds And Shepherdesses MY LADY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: My lady has returned to town Last Line: The love that warms my formal phrases. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Fashion; Man-woman Relationships; Urban Life; Male-female Relations MY LOVE, by ROBERT JONES (1616-) Poem Source First Line: My love is neither young nor old Subject(s): Country Life MY MOUNTAIN NEIGHBORS, by MILDRED GAVITT DODGE Poem Text First Line: The hem of her skirt makes a path to my gate Last Line: My tall mountain neighbors and I. Subject(s): Country Life; Neighbors MYSTERY STORY, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The story dry riverbed %twist and turn between steep bank Last Line: What I wouldnt give to know Subject(s): Country Life NATURE DISPLAYED, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her in my innocent contemplation Last Line: I hailed, and listening loved and loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Chatterton, Thomas (1752-1770); Collins, William (1721-1759); Country Life; Green, Matthew (1696-1737); Nature; Poetry & Poets NAZCA POTTERY, by JAVIER SOLOGUREN Poem Source First Line: I recall that time when once I lived Last Line: Soft forms faithful to the hand's caress Subject(s): Country Life; Memory; Nature; Peru NEW VERMONT NAMES, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I used to like the lowery days Last Line: And every horsepond crystal lake. Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Vermont NICO AND DORUS, by PHILIP SIDNEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And are you there, old pas! In troth, I ever thought Subject(s): Country Life NO CONTINUING CITY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The train with its smoke and its rattle went on Last Line: "at this time next year." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Country Life; England; Farewell; Landscape; English; Parting NO ONE KNOWS THE COUNTRYSIDE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I heard the eager rain Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Country Life NOCTURNAL QUESTION, by GEORGE RICHARD KAYTON Poem Text First Line: Now breaks the moon through clouds of purple haze Last Line: Wracked as they are with want and social pain . . . Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Bedtime NORTH FORK REFLECTIONS, by DANIEL T. MORAN Poem Source First Line: Behind cedar and clapboard Last Line: As it climbs and descends once, %and again Subject(s): Country Life NORTHERN MICHIGAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On this back road the land Last Line: Through the woods. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Landscape; Michigan; Nature; Rot; Decadence OCTOBER FIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A little flame breaks out Subject(s): Country Life ODE TO MASTER ANTHONY STAFFORD [TO HASTEN HIM INTO COUNTRY], by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, spur away, / I have no patience for a longer stay Last Line: To civilise with graver notes our wits again. Variant Title(s): Ode On Leaving The Great Town;an Ode To Mr Anthony Stafford To Hasten Him Into The Country Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life ODE TO NIGHT, by CHARLES PLUMB Poem Source First Line: Night, and her ornamented canopy Subject(s): Country Life ODES III, 23. TO PHIDYLE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O phidyle, my country girl, if at the new moon Last Line: No less welcome than the most sumptuous sacrifice Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life OF GARDENS, by FRANCIS BACON Poem Source First Line: God almightie first planted a garden Alternate Author Name(s): Verulam, Baron Subject(s): Country Life OF WINDS, SNOWS AND THE STARS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O witchery of the winter night Last Line: And the red moon sinks beyond the west. Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Bedtime OH! THE OAK AND THE ASH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A north country maid up to london had strayed Last Line: Are all growing green in my north country Subject(s): Country Life;homesickness OLD MAN MCGREW, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Ive never seen old man mcgrew in person Last Line: But it wont be funny if someone find him dead Subject(s): Country Life OLD RURALITIES; A REGRET, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With joy all relics of the past I hail Last Line: More touching is the death-bed than the bier! Subject(s): Country Life OLDEN LOVE-MAKING, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In time of yore when shepherds dwelt Last Line: I will go learn the country life %or leave the lover's state Variant Title(s): In Time Of Yor Subject(s): Country Life ON A COUNTRY ROAD BY SOME GRAZING LAND, by GERALD WALLERSTEIN Poem Source Last Line: And I was thinking of bulls and lawyers, %lawyers and bulls Subject(s): Country Life; Law And Lawyers; Nature ON A COUNTRY ROAD IN MACEDONIA, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: We are walking in september heat Last Line: Compared to these features of light? Subject(s): Country Life ON A COUNTRY ROAD, A YOUNG MAN FALLS FORWARD AND GREETS REALITY, by ANDY WEAVER Poem Source First Line: Nearby, a heron sits Last Line: These broken branches %of metaphor Subject(s): Country Life; Mankind; Reality; Walking ON DWELLING, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Courtesies of good morning and good evening Subject(s): Country Life ON DWELLING, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Courtesies of good morning and good evening Last Line: Like trees they murmur or like blackbirds sing %courtesies of good-morning and good-evening Subject(s): Country Life ON GRAY'S ELEGY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Go back beyond the electric light Last Line: And you have gray and gray's good age. Subject(s): Country Life; England; Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Memory; English ON MOUNT TIMPANOGOS, 1935, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Lodged against the mountain's collarbone Subject(s): Country Life ON PHILLIS' SICKNESS, FR. PHILLIS, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How languisheth the primrose of love's garden? Subject(s): Country Life; Sickness ON WOOLACOMBE BEACH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Unto his depths the ocean stirs Subject(s): Country Life ONE NIGHT MARLYCE JACOBSEN EXPRESSED HERSELF, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Was the eve of her enlistment in the u.S. Army %out at the holy rosary church Last Line: Glow from the golden moon above it in the west Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Country Life; Prairies; Women ONE SHALL BE TAKEN, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ecce autem duro fumans sub vomere taurus Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Country Life OPEN AIR, by T. FARQUHARSON Poem Text First Line: With the open air and a leisurely life Last Line: He's never a thought for money. Subject(s): Country Life OUR FATHER AT 80 HAS MOVED TO THE COUNTRY WHERE, by MARTHA RHODES Poem Source First Line: He's no longer poisoned Last Line: (squirrels steeping in wine) Subject(s): Aging; Country Life; Fathers OUT HERE, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: When rogers intersects eubanks Last Line: Of skin unpronounceable on the macadam Subject(s): Country Life OVID'S LISTS, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Valle sub umbrosa locus est, adspurgine multa Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Country Life OXFORDSHIRE GUY FAWKES' SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "remember, remember / the fifth of november" Last Line: And the worse for you Subject(s): "country Life;gunpowder Plot;oxfordshire, England;" Guy Fawkes PAN'S ANNIVERSARY, SELS., by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology) PAN'S HOLIDAY, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woodmen, shepherds, come away Variant Title(s): Holiday In Arcadi Subject(s): Country Life PASTORAL REVEILLE, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherds, rise and shake off sleep Variant Title(s): The Priest's Morning Son Subject(s): Country Life PHILLIS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Phillis, a herd-maid dainty Subject(s): Country Life PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S SECOND ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was frosty winter-season Last Line: Sigh'd, and rose, and went away. Subject(s): Country Life; Deception; Love - Complaints; Nature PIG'S HEAVEN INN, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): China; Country Life PISCATORIE ECLOGUES, SELS., by PHINEAS FLETCHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah wretched swains, that live in fishers trade Subject(s): Country Life PLATE TALK, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Batter catcher %oh man Last Line: I hit it %he out Subject(s): Country Life PLEASANT COUNTY MAYING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In this merry maying time Subject(s): Country Life PLEASURES OF TOWN AND COUNTRY, by THOMAS FITZGERALD Poem Text First Line: No! No! 'tis in vain, in this turbulent town Last Line: "would be sentenced to dig in the mine?" Subject(s): City & Town Life; Country Life POEM ON RETURNING TO DWELL IN THE COUNTRY, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In youth I had nothing Last Line: Now I am able %to return again to nature Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Country Life POET AND NATURALIST, by F. Z. S. LILFORD Poem Source First Line: Somewhere about 1860 my brother met Subject(s): Country Life POSTCARD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days are cubes of light Last Line: Some days I go looking for the sky Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Nebraska; Sky; Agriculture; Farmers PRAYER FOR A CITY CHILD, by DOROTHY P. ALBAUGH Poem Text First Line: I am not rich enough, dear god Last Line: To claim his heritage. Subject(s): Country Life PRAYER TO TIME, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Move onward, time, and bring us sooner free Subject(s): Country Life PREGNANCY, by KENNETH KOCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside the pomegranate is the blue sky Subject(s): Wisconsin; Paris, France; Animals; City & Town Life; Country Life PRELUDE (BOOKS 1-14), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze Last Line: In beauty exalted, as it is itself %of quality and fabric more divine Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Sleep; Travel PRICE OF HONOR, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: You cheated he shouted Last Line: Were paying the price Subject(s): Country Life PROPHETIC DESIRES, by WILLIAM STRODE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why are not yet my christals malleable Subject(s): Country Life PROSPERO [OR, CLOUDS], by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You do look, my son, in a moved sort Subject(s): Country Life PROVINCIA, by FRANCISCO CARRILLO Poem Source First Line: Six o'clock. The cathedral blesses Last Line: Save you from total softening of the brain Subject(s): Country Life; Peru; Tradition; Travel PURCHASE OF SMALL SECRETS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Along this bank %ill make no sound Last Line: Of an afternoon %of silence Subject(s): Country Life QUALITIES OF DARKNESS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: I snap off my light Last Line: Holding back %the darkness Subject(s): Country Life QUESTION OF CONTROL, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: If you need %to be Last Line: That %concept Subject(s): Country Life RABBIT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I s'pose it takes a feller 'at's be'n Last Line: Fer eatin' purposes! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Rabbits; Youth; Hares RAIN AND SUNSHINE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was out in the country Last Line: And sunshine of home! Subject(s): Country Life; Weather RALEIGH WAS RIGHT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot go to the country Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace Subject(s): Country Life; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot go to the country Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays & Playwrights ; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618); Rot; Decadence; Dramatists RALEIGH WAS RIGHT (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We cannot go to the country Last Line: For the country will bring us no peace Subject(s): Country Life; Decay; Dramatists; Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Nostalgia; Plays And Playwrights; Raleigh, Sir Walter (1552-1618) REBELLION, by STEPHEN CHALMERS Poem Source First Line: To wake at morn, and hear a little laugh Subject(s): Country Life; Nature RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 1, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so, here happily we meet, fair friend Last Line: A month ago: at vire they tried the case. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Paris, France; Country Life RED SKY AR NIGHT IS A SHEPHERD'S DELIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Country Life REGULUS RETURNS TO CARTHAGE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Atqui sciebat quae sibi barbarus Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Country Life REPLY TO THE PROVINCES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He writes from the provinces: it is Subject(s): Country Life; Luxembourg Gardens, Paris REPLY TO THE PROVINCES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He writes from the provinces: it is Last Line: Perhaps they are lying among the leaves, laughing, %pointingout for each other the brown faces in th Subject(s): Country Life; Luxembourg Gardens, Paris RETURNING TO DWELL IN GARDENS AND FIELDS: 1, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My youth felt no comfort in common things Last Line: For long time I was kept inside a coop, %now again I return to the natural way Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Country Life REWARD, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Knee deep in alfalfa %my horse snort Last Line: This one time please dont let me win Subject(s): Country Life RIOT'S CLIMBING OF A HILL, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as an angler melancholy standing Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life RIVALS; A PASTORAL, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath a meadow bridge, whose arch was dry Last Line: While richard turnd his comrades talk to join %and proudly s neerd to see his foe resign Subject(s): Country Life RIVER OXUS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And night came down over the solemn waste Subject(s): Country Life ROAD TO EMMAUS, by CAROLYN MILLER Poem Source First Line: All around us, secrets are continually Last Line: The kingdom is here, on the earth Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Truth ROYAL ASPECTS OF THE EARTH, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Alone with natue's breathing things Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Country Life RUBAIYAT OF DOC SIFERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you don't know doc sifers I'll jes' argy, here and now Last Line: Tamam Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Physicians; Sickness; Woods; Doctors; Illness RURAL BLISS, by ANTHONY C. DEANE Poem Text First Line: The poet is, or ought to be, a hater of the city Last Line: As long as maud is there, you see, -- what matters all the rest? Subject(s): Country Life; Happiness; Marriage; Poetry & Poets; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RURAL EVENING, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The whip cracks on the plough-team's flank Last Line: And a fiddle scrambling after. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Country Life; Evening; Landscape; Sunset; Twilight RURAL PROGRESS; OR WE'RE LIVIN' 'MOST IN TOWN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: So you're sorry for us fellows Last Line: Are a-livin' 'most in town. Subject(s): Camping; Country Life; Fields; Towns; Camps; Summer Camps; Pastures; Meadows; Leas RURAL SCENE AT EVENING, VIEWED FROM AFAR, by HUANG YUANJIE Poem Source First Line: Fall grass fills the bank of the pond Last Line: The stars and moon calmly preside over abundant frost Subject(s): Country Life RURAL SCENES, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never saw a man in all my days Last Line: To hearts, whose songs are gathered from the field. Subject(s): Country Life RURAL SPORTS; A GEORGIC INSCRIBED TO MR. POPE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, who the sweets of rural life have known Last Line: And with the fur-wrought fly delude the prey. Subject(s): Country Life RUSTIC CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No city primness train'd our feet Last Line: O shining grass, and shady bough. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Memory; Nostalgia; Childhood RUSTIC WREATH, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With may's tomthumb and daisy come Last Line: And only earth's rude rustic here. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Country Life; England; Landscape; English SAD SHEPHERD, SELS., by BEN JONSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life SAILING SHIP, by JOAN BEGBIE Poem Source First Line: Running his wistful blue eyes along the Subject(s): Country Life SATIRE: 16, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: What vast prerogatives, my gallus, are Last Line: Sometimes be lowzy, but be never poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Country Life; Soldiers SATIRE: 3, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: Griev'd tho I am, an ancient friend Last Line: And add new venom, when you write of rome. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Variant Title(s): The Satires Of Juvenal And Persius: The Third Satire Of Juvenal Subject(s): Country Life; Rome, Italy SATYR'S SERVICE [OR FAREWELL],FR.THE FAITHFUL SHEPERDESS, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Thou divinest, fairest, brightest Subject(s): Country Life SCILLA'S METAMORPHOSIS: MELANCHOLY, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth, late choked with showers Last Line: I sad and pensive wholly. Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Melancholy; Dejection SEALESS WORLD, by JOAN CAMPBELL Poem Source First Line: If when I come to paradise Subject(s): Country Life SHAKESPEARE'S FLOWER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shakespeare's flower? %the wild rose Subject(s): Country Life SHEPHEARDS CONTENT, SELS., by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He sits all day lowd-piping on a hill Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Country Life SHEPHERD'S GARLAND, SELS., by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds And Shepherdesses SHEPHERD'S SORROW, BEING DISDAINED IN LOVE, by THOMAS LODGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muses, help me; sorrow swarmeth Last Line: How neglect my joys have daunted Subject(s): Country Life SHEPHERD'S SWAIN, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, that at a blush can tell Subject(s): Country Life SHEPHERDESS, by FRANCO SACCHETTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mountain shepherdess, young and fair! Last Line: And follow where they led me, everywhere Subject(s): Country Life; Landscape; Shepherds And Shepherdesses SHEPHERDESSES' GARLANDS, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daisy scatter'd on each mead and down Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Country Life SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 30, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minnie and mattie Last Line: And fat little may. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Country Life SMALL COUNTRIES, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In defense of whatever happens next, the navy of flat-bottomed Last Line: Dark rush across the prairie towards him and over him Subject(s): Country Life SOLEMN LONG ENDURING PASSION, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wearie thoughts doe waite upon me Subject(s): Country Life SOLI CANTARE PERITI ARCADES, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I would live in a dairy Last Line: Or, haply, marjorie. Subject(s): Country Life SOMEHOW, by ALAN CHARLES BROWNJOHN Poem Source First Line: The north lancashire ballet group is coming Last Line: Write soon, tell us your news, love to amanda Subject(s): Country Life SONG, by JEAN PASSERAT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shephard loveth thow me vell Last Line: Like to thee, faire cruell may Variant Title(s): Song Of Passera Subject(s): Country Life SONG AGAINST SPEED, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of speed the savour and the sting Subject(s): Country Life SONG FOR A SUMMER'S DAY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through fen and farmland walking Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life; Walking SONG OF SOLOMON: THE SEASONS, by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Source First Line: Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away Last Line: Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away Subject(s): Country Life SONG OF THE OPEN, by SARA HAMILTON BIRCHALL Poem Source First Line: There's a whisper in the orchard, there's a laughter Subject(s): Country Life; Nature SONG OF THE OPEN COUNTRY, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lights are low, and the day has died Last Line: That I am living right here in town. Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Country Life SONG ON LEAVING THE COUNTRY EARLY IN SPRING, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: While joy re-animates the fields Last Line: O'er the unopened bud an unrefreshing shower. Subject(s): Country Life; Farewell; Parting SONGS FOR A WINTER FIRE: 4. COUNTRY NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course there's a tree to listen to Last Line: And that is a thousand pities. Subject(s): Country Life; Night; Sound; Bedtime SONNET, by ACTIUS SINCERUS SANNAZARIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To heare my plaints faire river christalline Alternate Author Name(s): Sannazaro, Jacopo; Sincerus Subject(s): Country Life SOPHIE'S BREASTS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Were important to us seventh grade boys Last Line: Perhaps, then, I'd believe and be satisfied Subject(s): Adolescence; Boys; Country Life; Dreams; Women SPARROW, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When august hangs the bough with plums Last Line: For men and birds of wit and taste. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): August; Cities; Country Life; Sparrows; Urban Life SPECIAL MESSAGE TO THE VERMONT LEGISLATURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We folks that went to district schools Last Line: While we look on. Subject(s): Country Life; Education; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Vermont - Legislature; Students; Educators; Professors SPIRIT, by THOMAS BROWNE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is that gentle heat that brooded on Subject(s): Country Life SPIRIT-SHEPHERD, by JOHN MILTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What voice is that? My young lord? Speak again Subject(s): Country Life SPRING, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The crow, adjusting one eye on me Last Line: Nourish the vast, stagnant harvest-fields Subject(s): Country Life; Harvest; Spring SPRING IN A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE, by NOIN Poem Source First Line: To a mountain village Last Line: From the vespers bells Subject(s): Country Life SPRING NIGHT, by JACQUES DELAMAIN Poem Source First Line: An evening towards the end of march. A gentle Subject(s): Country Life SPRING SCENE IN THE COUNTRY, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Singing, skipping, shaking back Last Line: Youth to train is this, good mothers! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Country Life; Spring STELLA AND MIRA, by PHINEAS FLETCHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mira, thine eyes are those twin heavenly powers Subject(s): Country Life STREAMS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I so love water-laughter Subject(s): Country Life; Nature SUBURBAN'S LIFE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Across his field the farmer trudged Last Line: For the child of the city and land. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Suburbs; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SUMMER (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter is cold-hearted, / spring is yea and nay Last Line: That days drone elsewehere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Country Life; Summer SUMMER HILL, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seems like to me it ought to be winter hill Last Line: The blade bite wood. Sound can't keep up with light Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Neighbors; Country Life SUMMER IN A SMALL TOWN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When the men leave me Last Line: I walk back across the mown lawn loving the smell and the houses so completely it leaves my heart em Subject(s): Absence; Happiness; Country Life SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: SPRING, by THOMAS NASHE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king Last Line: Spring! The sweet spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1) Variant Title(s): Spring Song;the Birds In Spring;song Of Ver And His Train;spring Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Nature; Spring; Dead, The SUNSET - HERNDON, IA 1979, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: The old brown barn Last Line: No neon, no traffic lights %nothing but ghostly miles Subject(s): Country Life; Evening SUNSET CLOUDS, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish Subject(s): Country Life TALKING TO THE WOODS IN SPRING, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: We werent worth much %last fall Last Line: Roots %dont you Subject(s): Country Life TAM O' SHANTER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chapman [or, chapmen] billies leave the street Last Line: Remember tan o'shanter's mare. Subject(s): Country Life; Fairies; Elves TEMPEST, SELS., by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Love; Sea THAMES, by IZAAK WALTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This glorious river feeleth the violence Alternate Author Name(s): Walton, Isaac Subject(s): Country Life THE APOLOGY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chide not if here you haply find Last Line: The country love, the country blush! Subject(s): Country Life; Muses; Youth THE BIRD-BOY, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far weightier cares and wider scenes expand Last Line: And curses on thee break his midnight rest. Subject(s): Country Life THE BLACKBIRD IN TOWN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the stone-prisoned tree Last Line: Through the spring nights and days. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blackbirds; Country Life; Singing & Singers; Towns THE BUDDING OF THE ORCHARD, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! The budding of the orchard Last Line: Are returning through the dusk. Subject(s): Country Life; June; Orchards THE CALL, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy stands on the hilltops Last Line: Some day I'll be there. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Country Life THE CALL OF THE COUNTRYSIDE, by J. M. MEADOR Poem Text First Line: The hum of the motor and whir of the wheel Last Line: Where the winds and waters meet. Subject(s): Country Life THE CIT'S COUNTRY BOX, by ROBERT LLOYD (1733-1764) Poem Text First Line: The wealthy cit, grown old in trade, / now wishes for the rural shade Last Line: To stare about them, and to eat. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Roads; Travel; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips THE CITY LIMITS, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you consider the radiance, that it does not withold Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Country Life THE COUNTRY CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country child has fragrances Last Line: And in his cheeks old roses blow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Innocence; Memory; Mothers; Childhood THE COUNTRY FAITH, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the country's heart Last Line: And the best of all! Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Religion; Theology THE COUNTRY GIRL'S FAREWELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Farewell ye hills and valleys Last Line: What lies to a beau? Subject(s): Country Life;farewell;girls; Parting THE COUNTRY GRAVEYARD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Close beside the winding highway Last Line: Of god's home beyond the skies. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Country Life; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The THE COUNTRY LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Happy is a country life! Happy is a country life! Last Line: "age has no pain, nor youth a snare" Subject(s): Country Life THE COUNTRY LIFE, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not what we would, but what we must Last Line: Will then be beaten to the plough. Subject(s): Country Life; Home THE COUNTRY LIFE, TO THE HONOURED M. END. PORTER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet country life, to such unknown Last Line: Caetera desunt-- Subject(s): Country Life; Courts & Courtiers; Porter, Endymion (1587-1649); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE COUNTRY LIFE; BALLAD TO A FRENCH TUNE, by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fondlings! Keep to th' city Last Line: You see's in the country got. Subject(s): Country Life THE COUNTRY RETREAT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lone and lovely solitude Last Line: Is what the city yields. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Country Life THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray! Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE CRICKET BAT SINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "willow and cane is all I am, with a wisp of waxen thread" Last Line: "willow and cane is all I am, yet look at the hosts I sway" Subject(s): Country Life;cricket (game);sports THE DESERTED VILLAGE, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet auburn! Loveliest village of the plain Last Line: As rocks resist the billows and the sky. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Lishoy, Ireland; Mothers; Religion; Social Protest; Villages; Liberty; Theology THE END OF A DAY IN THE PROVINCES, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passed the end of a day in the provinces Last Line: Bombay. Subject(s): Country Life THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 1, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I the man, whose muse whylome did maske Last Line: More mild, in beastly kind, then that her beastly foe. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 2, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Right well I wote most mighty soueraine Last Line: And to be easd of that base burden still did erne. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 3, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It falls me here to write of chastity Last Line: The redcrosse knight diverst, but forth rode britomart. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 4, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rugged forhead that with grave foresight Last Line: That since their days such lovers were not found elswhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 5, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as I with state of present time Last Line: We on his first adventure may him forward send. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 6, CANTOS 1-3, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waies, through which my weary steps I guyde Last Line: That in another canto shall to end be brought. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FAERIE QUEENE: BOOK 7. TWO CANTOS OF MUTABILITY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What man that sees the ever-whirling wheele Last Line: O that great sabbaoth god graunt me that sabaoths sight! Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Country Life; England; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Language; Morality; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Virtue; English; Allegories; Words; Vocabulary; Ethics THE FINE LADY'S LIFE, by HENRY CAREY (1687-1743) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though they call me country lass Last Line: "with a 'stand by! Clear the way!'" Subject(s): Country Life; Women THE FLEECE: BOOK 1, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The care of sheep, the labours of the loom Last Line: To listen; and to view the joyous scene. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters THE FLITTING, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've left my own old home of homes Last Line: Where castles stood & grandeur died Subject(s): Country Life THE FLYING GANG, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I served my time, in the days gone by Last Line: For the boys of the flying gang. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Childhood THE GARDENER'S DAUGHTER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This morning is the morning of the day Last Line: Now the most blessed memory of mine age. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Landscape; Love THE GEATE A-VALLEN TO, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the zunsheen ov our zummers Last Line: The geäte a-vallèn to. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Family Life; Fences; Childhood; Relatives THE HILLS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is not destitute of lore Last Line: Here may I live and die! Variant Title(s): Beauties Of The Cumberland Subject(s): Country Life; Nature THE HOCK-CART, OR HARVEST HOME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come sons of summer, by whose toile Last Line: But for to make it spring againe. Subject(s): Country Life; Harvest THE HYACINTHS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take the good ashplant; stuff the old grey cap Last Line: Leap up with immortality in your breast! Subject(s): Country Life; Spring THE INVITATION, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, thrushes, blackcaps, finches, all Last Line: Through all this leafy county! Subject(s): Birds; Country Life; Courtship THE INVITATION FROM A COUNTRY COTTAGE, by MARTHA (FOWKE) SANSOM Poem Text First Line: Close to the fireside confined Last Line: Where all things wear an honest face. Subject(s): Country Life THE KNAPSACK TRAIL, by EDWIN OSGOOD GROVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like the wide and common road Last Line: Till sudden—we are there! Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Paths; Trails THE LAKE ISLE OF INNISFREE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise and go now, and go to innisfree Last Line: I hear it in the deep heart's core. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Contentment; Country Life; Imagination; Inland Waters; Innisfree, Ireland; Islands; Lakes; Life Change Events; Nature; Sligo, County (ireland); Solitude; Vision; Fancy; Pools; Ponds; Loneliness THE LITTLE BROOK OVER THE HILL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little brook over the hill that my childhood / knew Last Line: That had swept with death the little brook over the hill. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Death; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE MAKER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made the country Last Line: Of great renown? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Creation; God; Mankind; Towns; Human Race THE MENAGERIE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All living creatures seem to throng the road Last Line: That's suffering to croak. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jasper a swayne vpon the cotswold hill Last Line: (at the desire of iasper) thus repeated. Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Walnuts THE MIDNITE SHOW, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Red-wigglers, night-crawlers Subject(s): Country Life THE MILKMAIDS EPITHALAMIUM, by THOMAS RANDOLPH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy to the bridegroom and the bride Last Line: To get a man to pity me. Subject(s): Country Life; Wedding Song; Epithalamium THE MOOR, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where yonder leaning hill-side roves Last Line: But pass no door of man's abode. Subject(s): Country Life; Moors (land) THE MOURNING GARMENT: THE DESCRIPTION OF THE SHEPHERD AND HIS WIFE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was near a thicky shade Last Line: Was not more in thessaly. Subject(s): Country Life; Marriage; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NEED OF BEING VERSED IN COUNTRY THINGS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house had gone to bring again Last Line: Not to believe the phoebes wept. Subject(s): Country Life THE NEW COTTAGE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: On earth two lovers can you meet more thrilled and overjoyed than Last Line: The vale of charms that never cease? Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Rain THE ODYSSEY: THE GARDENS OF ALCINOUS, by HOMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close to the gates a spacious garden lies Last Line: The people one, and one supplies the king. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE OLD LOVE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my door I step into Last Line: In the green wood to walk with her. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life THE OLD MAN'S WISH, by WALTER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I live to grow old (for I find I go down) Last Line: Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.' Subject(s): Country Life; Old Age THE OLD WIVES' [OR WIFE'S] TALE, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How now, fellow frolic! What, all amort? Last Line: Breakfast. Subject(s): Country Life THE OPEN STEEPLECHASE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had ridden over hurdles up the country once or twice Last Line: Send us word each race you start in and we'll back you every time.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Racing THE OPTIMIST, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turbid from london's noise and smoke Last Line: Since I am happy, all is good. Subject(s): Country Life THE ORCHARD FEAST, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, leave the ladders hidden up the boughs Last Line: And lift our loads between us and go home. Subject(s): Country Life; Food & Eating THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD: PASTORAL 3. THE HAPPY COUNTRYMAN, by NICHOLAS BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can live in heart so glad Last Line: To become a country lad! Variant Title(s): The Country Lad;worldly Paradise;merry Country Lad Subject(s): Country Life THE PASTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm going out to clean the pasture spring Last Line: I sha'n't be gone long. - you come too. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life THE POET GOES TO INDIANA, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll tell you a half-dozen things Subject(s): Indiana; Country Life THE POET IN ITALY; IMITATED AFTER RENATO RINALDI'S 'IL GIROVAGO', by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A ragged sweet little fellow Last Line: "death comes, with a grin, to see." Subject(s): Country Life; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Italians THE POET'S PETITION, by JOSIAH RELPH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If phoebus his poet's petition would crown Last Line: To virtue's improvement, and vice's decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Relph, Joseph Subject(s): Country Life; Poetry & Poets THE PREACHER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the one tree you love so well and hardly Subject(s): Old Age; Nature; Social Commentgaries; Country Life; Death; Dead, The THE PROCTORSVILLE AND WINDSOR, VERMONT, STAGE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was 'round the wide-eyed age Last Line: You bet, he glorified that stage. Subject(s): Country Life; Vermont THE RUINED INN, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the highway stands a ruined inn Last Line: That time of sunrise and of boyish dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Country Life THE RURAL PIPE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, chide me not because my pipe oft sings Last Line: His airs sicilian and his message clear. Subject(s): Country Life; Forests; Love; Singing & Singers; Woods; Songs THE SECOND ANTEMASQUE, by ELIZABETH BRACKLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have lost my melch cow Last Line: Pr. And our purses they are empty. Subject(s): Country Life; Cows; Singing & Singers; Songs THE SECOND DAYES LAMENTATION OF THE AFFECTIONATE SHEPHEARD, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Next morning when the golden sunne was risen Last Line: Forswearing love, and all his fond delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Country Life THE SHADED POOL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A laughing knot of village maids Last Line: And laura's are the lips I sing. Subject(s): Baths & Bathing; Country Life; Lakes; Women; Showers & Showering; Pools; Ponds THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: APRIL, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, good hobbinoll, what garres thee Last Line: And twincling starres the daylight hence chase. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): April; Country Life; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603 THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: MAY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is not thilke the mery moneth of may Last Line: I hold it best for us home to hye. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Variant Title(s): The Old Shepherd's May Song Subject(s): Country Life; May (month); Religion; Theology THE SHEPHERD'S CONTENT, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the kindes of common countrey life Last Line: And never wake till marble-stones shall weepe. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Subject(s): Country Life; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Contentment THE SHEPHERD'S HUNTING: THE FOURTH EGLOGUE, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Philaret on willy calls Last Line: If thou come next holy-day. Subject(s): Brooke, Christopher (1570-1628); Browne, William (1591-1645); Country Life; Ferrar, William (17th Century); Prisons & Prisoners THE SIX ROAD ENDS, by WILL CAREW Poem Text First Line: When folks hae got the meetin' an' sabbath dinner ower Last Line: "courtin' on the sabbath near the ""six road ends." Subject(s): Ireland; Country Life THE SOLDIERS OF THE PLOUGH, FR. THE HAPPY HARVESTERS, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No maiden dream, nor fancy theme Last Line: Man's labour must provide it. Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Plowing & Plowmen; Agriculture; Farmers THE SONG, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I would sing of crooked streams and fields Last Line: By hill and grove, by field and stream delayed. Subject(s): Country Life THE SPIRE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the bavarian steeple, on the hour, Subject(s): Clocks; Time; Country Life; Nature THE SPRING CALL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down wessex way, when spring's a-shine Last Line: To call is 'pret-ty de-urr!' Subject(s): Country Life THE TABLES TURNED, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up! Up! My friend, and clear your looks Last Line: That watches and receives. Subject(s): Country Life; Environment; Nature; Religion; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Theology THE TARIFF, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rather, my people, let thy youths parade Subject(s): Trade; Country Life THE TASK: BOOK 3. THE GARDEN, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, long in thickets and in brakes Last Line: For whom god heard his abraham plead in vain. Subject(s): Country Life; Gardens & Gardening; Truth THE TASK: BOOK 4. THE WINTER EVENING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge Last Line: Found here that leisure and that ease I wished. Subject(s): Country Life; Winter THE TASK: BOOK 6. THE WINTER WALK AT NOON, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is in souls a sympathy with sounds Last Line: Whose approbation prosper--even mine. Subject(s): Animal Rights; Bells; Country Life; Winter; Animal Abuse; Vivisection THE TRAIL, by AMY BRUNER ALMY Poem Text First Line: Oh, I am out where I belong Last Line: Where all the stars look down! Subject(s): Country Life THE TWO LOVES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I have two loves, and one is dark Last Line: Whose windows look cross-eyed at shadows. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Country Life; London THE USEFUL PLOUGH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A country life is sweet! Last Line: To follow the useful plough Variant Title(s): The Useful Plow Subject(s): Country Life THE VALE OF LONSDALE, LANCASHIRE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could no tdwell here, it is all too fair Last Line: Between the placid scene, and its unrest. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Country Life; Lancashire, England THE VILLAGE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The village life, and every care that reigns Last Line: Still it flows on, and shall for ever flow. Subject(s): Country Life; Freedom; Justice; Liberty THE VISIT, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the snowdrop goes to town Last Line: And weariness falls from the shoulders. Subject(s): Country Life; Walking THE VOICE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I went down the hill I heard Last Line: Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Subject(s): Country Life; Memory THE WAKE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come anthea let us two Last Line: Then to want the wake next yeare. Subject(s): Country Life; Holidays; New Year THE WAR THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU THINK, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little wind I saw curving and lifting Last Line: Where she grazes the horizon down to nothing Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Horses; Humanity; Nature THE WISH, SELECTION, by ROBERT DODSLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might I a small estate possess Last Line: "as that its noise and hurry mayn't offend." Subject(s): Country Life THE WISH; WRITTEN IN IMITATION OF POPE'S 'ODE ON SOLITUDE', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "grant me, ye powers, some blest retreat" Last Line: Bring sylvia there! Subject(s): Contentment;country Life;solitude; Loneliness THEM COUNTRY FOLKS, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, hello, jim mccracken, / come, shake er finger, do Last Line: En murder er chicken en churn. Subject(s): Country Life; Courtship THERE IS ALWAYS A LITTLE WIND, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Cemeteries; Country Life; Graveyards THEREFORE DOES TERROR HAUNT THY SOLITUDE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Country Life THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THOUGHTS ON WINTER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few long-time city dwellers who move to the country for peace and quiet Last Line: I was able to accomplish all that in just three hours, and the guys at the firestone didn't get a ce Subject(s): Winter; Country Life TO A COUNTRY COUSIN, by HENRY SAMBROOKE LEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cruel cousin kate, you ask me Last Line: In an album out of town. Subject(s): Country Life; Cousins; Poetry & Poets TO A FRIEND IN THE COUNTRY, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You like the country better than the town Subject(s): Country Life TO A FRIEND SETTLED IN THE COUNTRY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, the lot which fate to thee has given Last Line: Sweet solace to the wearied soul can yield. Subject(s): Cities; Comfort; Country Life; Fate; Soldiers; Urban Life; Destiny TO AMARILLIS, by WILLIAM BYRD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Though amarillis daunce in green Subject(s): Country Life TO B., by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone, the country life - how sweet Last Line: With you are sweeter still. Subject(s): Country Life TO JANE: THE INVITATION, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Best and brightest, come away! Last Line: In the universal sun. Variant Title(s): The Invitation Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Williams, Jane TO MADAM S---AT THE COURT, by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, prethee, leave the courts Last Line: Can here procure for thee. Subject(s): Country Life TO MISS LAETITIA VAN LEWEN AT A COUNTRY ASSIZE, by CONSTANTIA (CRAWLEY) GRIERSON Poem Text First Line: The fleeting birds may soon in ocean sing Last Line: Of your constantia. Subject(s): Country Life TO MY FRIEND GILBERT NEVILLE, FROM WREST, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I breathe, sweet ghib, the temperate air of wrest Last Line: To keep the memory of our arms alive. Subject(s): Country Life TO MY FRIEND, MR. JOHN ANDERSON, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You that the city life embrace Last Line: To wish thee here, jack. Subject(s): Country Life TO THE COUNTESS OF POMFRET: LIFE AT RICHKINGS, by FRANCES (THYNNE) SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: We sometimes ride, and sometimes walk Last Line: And find enough to blame within. Alternate Author Name(s): Hertford, Countess Of; Somerset, Duchess Of Subject(s): Country Life TO THE MAIDS TO WALKE ABROAD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come sit we under yonder tree Last Line: A kiss to each; and so we'l end. Subject(s): Country Life TO---- ----, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With memory's eyes I see to-day Last Line: We're far apart to-day! Subject(s): Country Life; Love; Memory TODAY I HAD TO, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Today I said it Last Line: Seemed like I had to Subject(s): Country Life TOMORROW, by JOHN COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the downhill of life when I find I'm declining Last Line: May become everlasting to-morrow. Subject(s): Country Life; Retirement TOWN AND COUNTRY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For I was reared %in the great city, pent Subject(s): Country Life TOWN AND COUNTRY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers are blooming in the woods, the Last Line: "when the sun goes down, if I can chase myself to town, to see the movie shows." Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Towns; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They's a predjudice allus 'twixt country and town Last Line: Fer theyr gran'pap to waller 'em round! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Forests; Prejudice; Urban Life; Woods; Bias; Intolerance TOWN AND COUNTRY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've thought, my cousin, it's extremely queer Last Line: And mean to come again another year. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Urban Life TRANSFORMATION, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: Sitting outside the small house near the orchard Last Line: She cocks her head at the applesound Subject(s): Books; Country Life; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Memory TRAVELLER'S REST, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you are tired of the long road and the open sky Subject(s): Country Life TREASURE HUNTER, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: Walking down %from the ridge Last Line: Cradling my newest treasure %my turtle shell Subject(s): Country Life TREE-TOP ROAD, by MAY LOUISE RILEY SMITH Poem Source Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Mary Louise Riley Subject(s): Country Life; Religion TREED, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: There a squirrel %up that tree Last Line: Is a good place %to be Subject(s): Country Life TRIALS OF A SPRING POET, by JULIAN FRANCIS SMITH Poem Text First Line: I sat me down beneath a tree Last Line: In safety in the city. Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Creative Ability; Urban Life; Inspiration; Creativity TWENTY WAYS TO TIE A SARONG, by MARCIA SOUTHWICK Poem Source First Line: I'm fleeing the city - back to pine trees Last Line: We can always go to yuca, the [or, that] cuban upscale club for show-biz types Subject(s): Abandonment; Country Life; Nature TWO VOICES, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the lanes and the hedges, the fields made red with the clover Last Line: And the sun of freedom shall shine across our graves to the ages!' Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Freedom; Socialism; Urban Life; Liberty UNCLE DAN'L IN TOWN OVER SUNDAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cain't git used to city ways Last Line: Wisht I hed you home with me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Country Life; Sabbath; Towns; Sunday UNTIL WE BUILT A CABIN, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: When we lived in a city Last Line: Stars there really are! Subject(s): Country Life; Stars UPON HIMSELF (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, leave this loathed country-life, and then Last Line: Though granges do not love thee, cities shall. Subject(s): Country Life VACATION HINTS FOR YOUNG VERMONTERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! All you young vermonters Last Line: The state you're living in. Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Country Life; Deer; Hunting; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vacation; Camps; Summer Camps; Hunters VACATION IN THE COUNTRY, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I lived in the country every day Last Line: To find some place to hide, and stay behind. Subject(s): Children; Country Life; Vacation; Childhood VALE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now may deep country beckon and ope and Last Line: And let him walk with thee about thy shepherd's business. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement VERMONT IN LATE SEPTEMBER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roadside bloom I saw last week Last Line: The goldenrod and asters. Subject(s): Country Life; Roads; Travel; Vermont; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips VERMONT WILD FLOWERS IN AUGUST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild flowers all vermonters love Last Line: The chickory and lady's lace. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Mountain Life - Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas VOICES, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day with anxious heart and wondering ear Last Line: The speech and music of immortal things. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Country Life WALKING AROUND A BEND ON A COUNTRY ROAD, by GERALD WALLERSTEIN Poem Source Last Line: Wondering if that was the form %my own fury took Subject(s): Country Life WANDERER'S NIGHT-SONG [NACHTLIED], by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ueber allen gipfeln Subject(s): Country Life WE CAME THEN TO THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY I EVER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Country Life WEEKEND IN THE COUNTRY, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How water is run Last Line: Unexpected company %or %tipped back in a ladderback %watching ants %climb up your arm Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Calm; Country Life WESTERN CIVILIZATION, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That woman still lives at her ranch Last Line: That just now shaded your eyes Subject(s): Country Life; Nature; Stars; Wyoming WHEN BROADWAY WAS A COUNTRY ROAD, by CHARLES COLEMAN STODDARD Poem Text First Line: No rushing cars, nor tramping feet Last Line: To broadway as a country road. Subject(s): Broadway, New York City; Country Life; U.s. - History WHEN FORTH THE SHEPHERD LEADS THE FLOCK, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Never sighing – alas! Subject(s): Country Life WHEN YOU WALK, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you walk in a field Last Line: The beautiful clouds go by! Subject(s): Cities; Country Life; Walking; Urban Life WHISTLING IN SPRING, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: In the top %of my cedar tree Last Line: Spring is coming %spring is coming Subject(s): Country Life WHOSE TREE IS THIS, by DAVID L. HARRISON Poem Source First Line: The tree of the owl Last Line: Beware %look up Subject(s): Country Life WILDERNESS IS TAMED, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The axe has cut the forest down Last Line: The rivers bridged, the new towns named Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life; Frontier And Pioneer Life WITHOUT KNOWING WHY, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY Poem Source First Line: One morning of ancestral ash Last Line: Why did they discover this last savage land? Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Country Life; Native Americans WOMAN WALKING, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An oblique cloud of purple smoke Last Line: I might well see you oftener. Subject(s): Country Life; Women; Desire WOODLANDS, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shepherd, I pray thee stay. Where hast Subject(s): Country Life WRITING ON NAPKINS AT THE SUNSHINE CLUB; MACON, GEORGIA 1970, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rock-o-la plays country and western Last Line: Even the low belch of the brunette behind the flippers. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Country Life; Country Music; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; South (u.s.) |
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