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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FARM LIFE Matches Found: 1493 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "PUSHAN, GOD OF PASTURE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pushan, god of golden day" Last Line: And we follow ever more! Subject(s): Farm Life;fields;slavery; Agriculture;farmers;pastures;meadows;leas;serfs 2:00 A.M., by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She awoke in the night and thought about dying Last Line: And go back to sleep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life 340 B.C., by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Alexander and his lover Last Line: And gay persepolis aflame Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality A CANARY AT THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folks has be'n to town, and sahry Last Line: A high-priceter cage 'n that! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Canaries; Farm Life; Music & Musicians; Agriculture; Farmers A COUNTRY GOD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When groping farms are lanterned up Last Line: And summer not to come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A FAIR FARMER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fannie's going in for farming Last Line: That I'll be her husbandman! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A FARM IN WESTERN MINNESOTA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at childhood, I see the yellow rose bush Last Line: Was work to do, but no one learned how to say goodbye Subject(s): Farm Life; Minnesota; Agriculture; Farmers A FARM PICTURE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn Last Line: And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away. Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A FARMHOUSE DIRGE, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk with me to the brow of the hill, to visit the farmer's wife Last Line: When the heart grows weak, then hope grows strong, but stronger than hope is death. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A FENCECROW IN EARLY MARCH, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last snowdrifts Subject(s): Winter; Farm Life; Fences; Agriculture; Farmers A FULL HARVEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seems like a feller'd ort'o jes' to-day Last Line: On'y jes' waste it all on me and you! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers A HEIFER CLAMBERS UP, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A HIDDEN LIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proudly the youth, sudden with manhood crowned Last Line: Arose and died upon the listener's ear. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Education; Family Life; Farm Life; God; Love; Quiet Life; Dead, The; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers A HIGHLAND VILLAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clear shining after the rain Last Line: Clear shining after the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Farm Life; Highlands Of Scotland; Agriculture; Farmers A HINT TO THE FARMERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farmers, whose income, day by day Last Line: "the public will find railing!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Kisses; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A MEMORY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is just the weather, a wet may and blowing Last Line: "god send fine weather to carry home the sheaves!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Fathers; God; Memory; Piety; Trust; Weather; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A NOON LULL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Possum in de 'tater-patch Last Line: Drapt in de turnip-hole, chasin' f'um de cow! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Opossums; Weasels; Agriculture; Farmers; Possums A PLACE IN KANSAS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in kansas, a friend found Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A REVERIE, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a spreading elm, from whose high boughs Last Line: And broken hedge-flowers sweet, mark his impetuous way. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers A SERIOUS STEP LIGHTLY TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between two burrs on the map Last Line: And forty-five presidents Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Farm Life; Heritage; Heredity; Agriculture; Farmers A SHORT'NIN' BREAD SONG - PIECED OUT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behine de hen-house, on my Last Line: (chorus) Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Singing & Singers; Agriculture; Farmers A TRAIN WINDOW, SELS, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: The gride and screech of snorting locomotives Last Line: Who are the lovers there? Subject(s): Farm Life; Railroads; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips A VERMONT AUCTIONEER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er an auction bill I see Last Line: He lived and died an auctioneer. Subject(s): Farm Life; Vermont; Villages; Agriculture; Farmers A VERMONT KITCHEN, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady some call 'mrs. Looz' Last Line: No stranger, though a tramp, could stifle. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers A VERMONT PASTURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have to work your tillage land Last Line: Upon your pastur ledges. Subject(s): Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers A VOICE FROM THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is my dream to have you here with me Last Line: Our way toward home across the dewy fields. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Voices; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers A WALGETT EPISODE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes down with a blinding glare Last Line: Like a tangible thing upon walgett town. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Farm Life; Rivers; Agriculture; Farmers A WRONG INFERENCE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, old uncle abe, if your tidings are true Last Line: "twas er ox an' er 'oman dat made de plow go." Subject(s): African Americans; Farm Life; Plowing & Plowmen; Progress; Negroes; American Blacks; Agriculture; Farmers A YARD-FENCE AND FLOWER-BEDS, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Old, junked machinery Last Line: With a yard-fence and flower-beds. Subject(s): Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Repairing; Agriculture; Farmers; Mending A YEOMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man that at the wheatstack side Last Line: And all his life has been alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Farm Life; Landscape; English; Agriculture; Farmers ABANDONED FARMSTEAD, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: Across the distance of contested lands Last Line: In a car that shrank upon a shrinking road, %until the last speck of farmstead disappeared Subject(s): Farm Life; Memory; Prairies ABANDONED ROAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wheel ruts scarred the bedrock here and there Last Line: A road that leads to nowhere for no reason Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ABOUT WRITING AND PUBLISHING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There's more to writing poetry than you think Last Line: It might be better Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AERIAL GEOGRAPHIES, by LAURENCE LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: An aerial broad view of landscape, high Last Line: African genes. Ethnic dna...Aboriginal cave glyphs may point a way Subject(s): Barbados; Earth; Farm Life; Flowers; Geography; Maps; Paintings And Painters; Plants; Sugar AFRAID OF THE COUNTRYSIDE, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: I'm afraid of the countryside Last Line: The countryside is a pale dream in a fever Subject(s): Farm Life AFTER DROUGHT, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Now come the quiet days of cloud Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life AFTER FROST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The katydids and crickets had Last Line: The judgment day Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AFTER HURRICANE HUGO, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I'm picking up wood from the lawn Last Line: Where we slept Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AFTER MANY A GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After many a summer flies the swan Last Line: Is still trying Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AFTER THUNDER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Storm, thunder no more Last Line: Nor blossoms without rain Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality AFTER WINTER, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He snuggles his fingers Last Line: "runnin' space . . . " Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism AFTER-GLOW, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: Playthings agian on my kitchen floor Subject(s): Farm Life AGAIN THE TREE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The tree was chosen by the boy and dog Last Line: Its lights are hope. Even the sad heart lifts! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AGRICULTURAL CUSTOMS IN 1800; LINCOLNSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Farmer at the plough Last Line: Son threshing in the barn, %all happy to a charm Subject(s): Farm Life AGRICULTURAL CUSTOMS IN 1900; LINCOLNSHIRE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Father gone to see the show Last Line: All the boys learning latin, %with a mortgage on the farm Subject(s): Farm Life AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sunday morning - service done Last Line: "that's hagricultural distress!" Subject(s): Farm Life; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers AGRICULTURE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the rain can't stand up straight, but once Last Line: But a window sailing through the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Farm Life; Horses; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers AGRICULTURE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You've planted seven wealthy husbands Last Line: A profit-making farm Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Farm Life AGRICULTURE: A POEM, SELS., by ROBERT DODSLEY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Landscape AIR, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Come diktynna come -- %once more the mourning dove Last Line: My love could not retrieve %your evanescent breath Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality AKIN, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: The prairie, wide and desolate Subject(s): Farm Life ALIEN CORN, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Kneeling to see the world Last Line: Weevils from a cornskin rug. Help! Help! Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Iowa; Native Americans ALL SERENE, by NELLIE R. NESSELROADE Poem Source First Line: Clean hearth, a glowing fire, a sparkling Subject(s): Farm Life ALMOST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I had almost forgotten the smell of november Last Line: But I had almost forgotten Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALMOST ISAAC, by ANTHONY RUSSELL WHITE Poem Source First Line: Abraham raises his necessary knife and strikes Last Line: And the beauty that is isaac, %blooming in anatolia in may Subject(s): Abraham; Farm Life; Isaac (bible) ALONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It twists my heart to walk alone Last Line: Now pull my heart strings like a tether Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She stitched the remnants of her life Last Line: And wondered why she'd never known Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALPHABET FOR INSOMNIACS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I can't sleep Last Line: Praise be! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ALTHOUGH I HAVE STOLEN HIS GOLDEN GIRL, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: The subject of his earthy joke is me Subject(s): Farm Life ALTHOUGH WE LIE UNDER ONE ROOF, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: Singing, joining the scraps of her wedding dress Subject(s): Farm Life AMERICA WAS PROMISES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: America was promises Last Line: America kept its promises to you Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AN EARLY PIONEER, by MAMIE A. MELOY Poem Text First Line: Against the soft, dark velvet of this case Last Line: That spread from nineveh to now! Subject(s): Farm Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers AN EXPLANATION, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look heah! 'splain to me de reason Last Line: Oh! ...!— Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Towns; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas AND PIGS MAY FLY, by PARTRIDGE BOSWELL Poem Source First Line: I'm boarding my flight home from the heartland Last Line: Door opens, whips out a playboy and begins reading Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Travel AND YOU, VANYA, by YURY ODARCHENKO Poem Source Last Line: Crying for its rooster Subject(s): Farm Life ANDREW RAN PAST ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Andrew ran past me yesterday Last Line: I know that life is good, hard - got Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANDY YOUNGBLOOD, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: When andy youngblood comes to the mill Subject(s): Farm Life ANNIVERSARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The day approaches Last Line: And I must grieve Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANNIVERSARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The years slipped by as easily Last Line: With a shared look and the word unspoken Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANOTHER FARM, by JAMES SCRUTON Poem Source First Line: Along this road another farm's Last Line: From this road to horizon's edge Subject(s): Farm Life ANOTHER REAPER, by WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG III Poem Text First Line: Go down,my son to the ploughing Last Line: When blood is on the plain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ANOTHER YEAR, by A. M. WALTON Poem Source First Line: Another year the sun wil' shine at planting Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope ANT LION, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I bake in a crater Last Line: My larval urge to fly, %copulate and die Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality ANT WORLD: THE LEAF-CUTTERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Cross-sectioned and cubed Last Line: Leaf bit by leaf bit Subject(s): Ants; Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Leaves; Nature; Trees ANTIQUE SHOP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is an attic air about the place Last Line: The shrewd horse - trader gleam that's in her eye! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ANY QUESTIONS?, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Who wound the clock that set the galaxies in Last Line: Questions seek the unknown Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life APOTHEOSIS OF GENERAL COUNT DEITRICH VON HULSEN-HAESLER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Kaiser wilhelm and the general staff Last Line: To bury the count in uniform Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality APPETITE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I eat these Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Farm Life APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods APPLE BOXES, by JANE BROX Poem Source First Line: Some of our apple boxes come from a hundred miles away: 'moose hill Last Line: Their crowns still shaped by old prunings Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest APPLE TREES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The smell of winter apples in a bin Last Line: The red heartwood burned with a steady flame Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life APPLE-PARING NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The biggest basket 'round our place Last Line: That weekly apple-paring night. Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers APRIL AGAIN, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April again, / the funeral month, heaping Last Line: Under my feet Subject(s): April; Farm Life; Spring APRIL CONVERSATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She pressed the seed in the april ground Last Line: Who put the life in the little brown seed? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life APRIL FOOL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I'll always be an april kind of fool Last Line: The world is young. A fool in april knows Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life APRIL IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ver purpureum horace loved Last Line: Up here at jim mcnally's. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Peace; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers AS I GROW OLD A SWEETER NOTE, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life AS THE TEAM'S HEAD BRASS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the team's head brass flashed out on the turn Last Line: After the ploughshare and the stumbling team. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; World War I; Agriculture; Farmers; First World War ASH WEDNESDAY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Dust to dust says the priest Last Line: At your mother's breast Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality AT A POTATO DIGGING, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mechanical digger wrecks the drill Last Line: Then, stretched out on the faithless ground, spill %libations of cold tea, scattered crusts Subject(s): Farm Life; Potatoes AT BREAD LOAF INN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Above the woody summits of these hills Last Line: And man with nature climb the slope to heaven. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Heaven; Nature; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Paradise AT CANDLE TIME, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Last night at candle lightning time there Subject(s): Farm Life AT HUSKING TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At husking time the tassel fades Last Line: At husking time. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers AT NIGHTFALL, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like held lanterns, wavering Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers AT NIGHTFALL, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like held lanterns, wavering Last Line: Wobblings, desires, where I -- she seems quite sure of it --belong Subject(s): Farm Life AT PINAFORE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Ruffles and lace and furbelows Last Line: Little girls have grown up, and the days are long Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AT THE DARK BANQUET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: At the dark banquet, who shall be fed? Last Line: The importunate living? The accusing dead? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AT THE FUNERAL, by LORRAINE MOZEE TAYLOR Poem Source First Line: She bends in awkward agony Subject(s): Farm Life AT THE SUPERMARKET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Fields in a basket, glowing and green Last Line: Weighed in a scale by the measured pound! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AT THE TURN OF THE YEAR, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The path we loved is quite deserted Subject(s): Farm Life AT WINTER SOLSTICE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Dream, dream slow dreams Last Line: And darkness melting like a drift of snow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AUBADE IN SPRING, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: At night the cows sleep on the hill Last Line: The cows walk in for milking Subject(s): Farm Life AUCTIONEER'S SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come up from the field Last Line: Bid up! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Auctions; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers AUNT ANNIE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She was death on germs and spiders Last Line: But she listened when I talked Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AUNT JULIA, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt julia spoke gaelic %very loud and very fast Last Line: With so many questions %unanswered Subject(s): Farm Life AURORA, JULY WOODS, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Little town of trillium and hay Last Line: The long breath of design Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Mothers; Prairies AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by RUSSELL LORD Poem Source First Line: Bugles, angrily blown and shrill Subject(s): Farm Life AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: The farmers in the sky and in the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: That the farmer sows in the skies and the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds And Shepherdesses AUTUMN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Golden and warm the summer rivers ran Last Line: To last them through the season of the dark Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AUTUMN, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Autumn like a tired man is sitting down to Subject(s): Farm Life AUTUMN FIELDS, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said his legs were stiff and sore Last Line: And the land where he had been Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons AUTUMN PLOUGHING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than the beauty of summer Last Line: Though his ploughshare lay me low. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Growth; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers AUTUMN WALK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Walk out of summer. Step into fall Last Line: Walk out of summer. Step into fall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life AVARO, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell) Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief! Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect AWAKENING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Just when the day seemed drab Last Line: And a gleaming gem of sand Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BABUSHKA, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Her hair tied in a knot Last Line: Is land enough for me.' Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BACK IN THE MOUNTAINS, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: I'll take down the old clock Subject(s): Farm Life BACK TO THE FARM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll buy a little farm somewhere,' the old Last Line: They turn their eyes to the old home farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Old Age; Retirement; Weariness; Agriculture; Farmers; Fatigue BACKSIDES OF HOUSES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Backsides of houses don't pretend Last Line: And sandboxes bulge with buried treasure Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BAD MEDICINE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Under a rising gibbous moon Last Line: Of the lovelorn loon Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BALLAD OF THE TANNERY WITCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Jim backman wed the black haired maid Last Line: The stump was raw and red! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BANKING UP VERMONT HOUSES, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house without a suller wall Last Line: They know you've finished banking up. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BANQUET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Dine on the dictionary Last Line: For daily fare Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BAOBAB FRUIT PICKING (OR DEVELOPMENT IN MONKEY BAY), by JACK A. MAPANJE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We've fought before, but this is worse than rape! Last Line: At them baobab fruit picking. 'my house was right %here!' whoever dares check these balamanja dreame Subject(s): Farm Life BARBED WIRE, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It aint no easy way / to find the endpiece of wore Last Line: Won't never get this damn fence done Subject(s): City & Town Life - Utah; Farm Life; Inventions & Inventors; Agriculture; Farmers BARE HANDS, by ALICE G. HARVEY Poem Text First Line: A lad with eager, anxious eyes Last Line: To pay for a place to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BARN CAT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The barn cat always greets you at the stable door Last Line: That a lady is a lady, no matter where she lives Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BARN FIRE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It starts, somehow, in the hot damp Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BARN FIRE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It starts, somehow, in the hot damp Last Line: Because they know they are safe there, %the horses run back into the barn Subject(s): Farm Life BARN-YARD, by SHEILA CUSSONS Poem Source First Line: The pigsty did not reek Last Line: O lost barn-yard, in you I could find the whole old testament %and the greek legends and andersen Subject(s): Farm Life BAT SHLOMO, by HAROLD SCHIMMEL Poem Source First Line: The great epic Last Line: The pace of the daily press, %we'll gorge ourselves and dwindle Subject(s): Farm Life BEAN FIELDS, by MARGARET HASSE Poem Source First Line: They labor along the straight lines of their Last Line: Opening here, closing there Subject(s): Beans; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor And Laborers BEAUTY TREATMENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The meadow is dowdy in its faded brown Last Line: Is a delicate powdering of snow! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BEDROCK, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Though I endure the shore Last Line: Came of hardship %wandering the mountains Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality; Nature; Relationships BEE PASTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here there is pasture for the sun struck bees Last Line: Spread thickly on his crusty home baked bread Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BEET FARMER, by MARK MIRICH Poem Text First Line: It is not weariness that lines this face Last Line: And tear a quiet courage all apart. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BEFORE I WAS HUNGRY, by WALTER LANE Poem Source First Line: Before I was poor Last Line: Rights of %fishermen, %farmers Subject(s): Appalachia; Farm Life; Poverty BEFORE THE DELUGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am tired of the rain Last Line: Forgive me if I, too, hesitate and wonder Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BEFORE THE FALL, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I am no perseus come to swing a blade Last Line: The rib restored, androgynous as hell Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BEFORE THE STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trees are wringing their anxious hands Last Line: Before the great sky river flows Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BESIDE THE MOUNTAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Living beside the mountain all my life Last Line: The mountain still will bulk against the sky Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BETWEEN EACH SONG, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I once would have said my sister vida but now Last Line: Think we should get it off or get off it Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Farm Life; Singing And Singers BIG MAC WHOPPER, by RICHARD CLOKE Poem Source First Line: Take a hundred acres, as a sample Last Line: Doubles every few years - %invitation to plague? Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life BIG MEN, by WINFIELD S. HIIGEL Poem Text First Line: Red acres in travail call us now Last Line: And the call is for big men! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BIG ROCK-CANDY MOUNTAIN, by LOUIS EDWARD SISSMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The land was theirs after we were the land's Last Line: Out of a rifled and abandoned land Alternate Author Name(s): Sissman, L. E. Subject(s): Farm Life; Railroads BIRD TREE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Nuthatch and titmouse and purple finch Last Line: Blossom here while tulips sleep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRDS OF A FEATHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Swirl of black in the back yard Last Line: Around blue shoulders of the sky Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRTHDAY LINES FOR OCTOBER'S CHILD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: October's the month of frost and flame Last Line: I'm glad that you were born! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRTHDAY SONG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Now that you're one, going on two Last Line: Now that you're one, going on two! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BIRTHDAY VERSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You have fulfilled my dreams for you Last Line: The years have blessed you Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BITCH, by SERGEY ALEXANDROVICH YESENIN Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: In the morning the bitch whelped Last Line: Trickled down into the snow Alternate Author Name(s): Yesenin, Sergei Subject(s): Farm Life BITING INSECTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The biting insects don't like the blood of people who dread dying Last Line: Will know that now it is you being accepted back into the family of mortals Subject(s): Farm Life BITTER END, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A moonlit league to larboard Last Line: And suck them to their graves Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BITTERSWEET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: O bittersweet is the taste of life Last Line: Hold on to the hurrying years Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BLACK CROSS FARM, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: After full many a mutual delay Last Line: The secret of the black cross back with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Crosses; Emptiness; Farm Life; Home; Secrets; Agriculture; Farmers BLACK FACED SHEEP, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruminant pillows! Gregarious soft boulders! Last Line: And death is our shepherd %and we die as the animals die Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortality; Shepherds And Shepherdesses BLACK TUESDAY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A time to cut losses Last Line: Are hammered to crosses. %nothing less suffices Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BLACKBERRY LIGHT: (BLACKBERRY LIGHT), by WILLIAM HEYEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old man wenzel, try to forget the yellow manure Last Line: From branched world to central cocoon, %their frail and perishable home Subject(s): Farm Life BLASTING ROCKS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cutting corn is late Last Line: And squandered forty plunks. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BLESSINGS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God bless the little orchard brown Last Line: Many a night and morn! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blessings; Farm Life; God; Nature; Agriculture; Farmers BLIGHTED TREE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Spare that sucker at the root,' Last Line: Outside tessie's shuttered house Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BLIND, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Gunners a decade dead Last Line: And our eyes trained on the sky Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BLIZZARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is a day for knitting mittens Last Line: And school is as far as the milky way! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BLUE CORN, BLACK MESA, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: Before you go, I need to tell you Last Line: No one knows why this story is true Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Hopi Indians; Human Rights; Native Americans BLUE FARM HOUSE, CA. 1846, by ANN TOWNSEND Poem Source First Line: At least six cats called; dogs barked by every tree Last Line: Now he smells his own rude smell Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Relationships BLUEPRINTS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a long way off I can see the cross- Last Line: Be the planner's. This one touched my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Amish; Farm Life; Memory; Mennonites; Agriculture; Farmers BOB'S LANE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women he liked, did shovel-bearded bob Last Line: And gloom, the name alone survives, bob's lane Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life BOGIE-WIFE, by KATHLEEN JAMIE Poem Source First Line: She hoists her thigh over back fences Last Line: Wears a fresh tee-shirt and attractive batik trousers Subject(s): Farm Life BOWS TO DROUTH, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Driest summer, %the hose snakes under the mulch Last Line: At the base of an apple Subject(s): Farm Life BOY AT THE UPSTAIRS WINDOW WITH HIS HEAD IN HIS HANDS, by ANNE SZUMIGALSKI Poem Source First Line: It is heavy as a stone he tells himself like any rock in the field Last Line: Of the mind Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Fathers And Sons; Prairies BREAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is an ancient magic in the hands Last Line: Give us this day our daily bread Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BREAD AND WINE, by NINA CASSIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We said there'd be a celebration Last Line: With a withered hand Subject(s): Farm Life BREAD OF HATHERLEIGH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We made a pilgrimage to see the town Last Line: Was what we came to hatherleigh to find Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BREAKFAST TIME AT THE EAST DELAWARE OUTLET AT LOWE'S CORNERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Switches click, gates open and water pushes through Last Line: They go Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BRIGHT HARVEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: These fields are not so poor as one might think Last Line: On these wide fields where beauty always grows! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BRIGHT LEAF, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like words put to a song, the bunched tobacco leaves Subject(s): Tobbaco Farms; Women - Employment; Children; Farm Life; Southern States; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.) BRINGING DESIRE TO THE FIELDS, by AMY NEWMAN Poem Source First Line: The farmer makes love to his wife in the field Last Line: Of hours. On this and all the world's resources, %she lingers, lit up like a votive Subject(s): Farm Life; Sex BROKEN GROUND, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opening out and out Last Line: What is left %is what is Subject(s): Farm Life BROOK LULLABY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sleep, the sound of singing water Last Line: Swinging over the singing brook Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BROWN'S DESCENT, OR, THE WILLY-NILLY SLIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brown lived at such a lofty farm Last Line: By road, a matter of several miles. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming BUCK, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: The december my horse died, I did not Last Line: Lonesomed, hurt, and howling %not one holy word toward the bones. Subject(s): Farm Life BUCOLIC COMEDY: CACOPHONY FOR CLARINET, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Said the dairymaid Last Line: To play with her endless vacancy of mind! Subject(s): Farm Life BUFFALO COMMONS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In antler, reeder, %ryder and streeter Last Line: Reclaimed by thistle %and buffalo grass Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality BUILD SOIL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why tityrus! But you've forgotten me. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BULL GOD, by JOE SALERNO Poem Source First Line: The bull god moves from sunlight Last Line: Swaggering cock as tense %with seed as a milkweed pot about to burst %with the next touch of the win Subject(s): Farm Life BULL-ROARER, by GERALD STERN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I only saw my father's face in butchery Last Line: Locked up in that whirling stone, dear father Subject(s): Farm Life BURNING BRUSH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most farms, in any place you please Last Line: To burn a rousing batch of brush. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire-weeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers BURNING THE FIELDS, by LINDA BIERDS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the windless late sunlight of august, Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BURSTING RAPTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the physician to complain, Last Line: That’s what a certain bomb was sent to be Subject(s): Farm Life; Atomic Bomb; Agriculture; Farmers BUTTERFLY FARM, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: A bit absurd perhaps - these exotica of steaming Last Line: The wholeness of them, the ephemeral %lesson of their lives Subject(s): Butterflies; Farm Life; Heaven; Insects BUTTERMILK CHANNEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray tarry, nancy blossom' Last Line: Fore the sun went down! Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; New York City - Colonial Period; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips BY EARTH RESTORED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: From grime and bitterness of city street Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life BY NATURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it could be, it would be seven o'clock Last Line: Who will be there for you I promise, always. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers BY SQUATTER'S RIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I claim this lovely Last Line: These years Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CALF, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: If it is being fattened for food Last Line: Have not been inspired to jump for joy in years Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life CALL HOME THE HEART FROM WANDERING, by FRANCES DAVIS ADAMS Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life CAMPAIGN SONG, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: O-h-h, politics come with hue and cry Subject(s): Farm Life CANE: NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold Last Line: Beauty so sudden for that time of year. Variant Title(s): November Cotton Flower Subject(s): Cotton; Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CANYON DE CHELLY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Love tarries another year Last Line: Weathering on the cliffs Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CAPE COD - JULY 30, 1984, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The restless water sweeps the sand Last Line: Sandpipers and gulls Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CARBUNCLE, by MURIEL ZELLER Poem Source First Line: She saw the earth redd Last Line: And kept the mice numbered Subject(s): Farm Life CAREER, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: Jermiah saddlemire Subject(s): Farm Life CARPE DIEM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Ask not, leuconoe -- we cannot know Last Line: Place no faith in the future. Seize the day Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CATERPILLAR '60', by CRANSTON STROUP Poem Text First Line: The sun / is burning clouds up over lame mare hill Last Line: "the wash: a trifle for tomorrow." Subject(s): Farm Life; Tractors; Agriculture; Farmers CATFISH FARM, by ELTON GLASER Poem Source First Line: Here's low we do it, out in the sloppy fields Last Line: Bristle and swill, bonepickers with a seasick gait Subject(s): Child Labor; Farm Life; Fields CAVE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Between sleeping and waking Last Line: In a cvae of its own making Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CELLAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: If I could lift the trap door once again Last Line: And smell the cellar breath, remembering Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CENTER PIVOTS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Fields of canola %on the plains of montana Last Line: In a bowl of granola Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CHALLENGE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: What polished flattery or slippery truth Last Line: Would make you worthy of his loveliness? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CHANGE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and Last Line: Of before that time and it %floods my memory Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Fire-weeds; Migrant Labor; North Carolina; Smoke; Tractors CHAPTER SEVEN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Chicken neck %on a chopping block Last Line: I'm too soon old, %too late smart Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CHERRY, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: February: the season grips Last Line: Out of range, held tight to twigs Subject(s): Farm Life CHERRY PIES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: This her kitchen, where whe worked and sang Subject(s): Farm Life CHORE TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The milker's steady hoosh - a - hoosh Last Line: Here in this peaceful place! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CHUANG TZU TAKES A NAP, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When I was a wizened poet Last Line: I dreamed I was a poet %imagining a swan Subject(s): Chuang-tzu (4th Century); Farm Life; Homosexuality CHURNING THE BUTTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The dasher's steady thump goes on and on Last Line: Cool buttermilk is tangy on his tongue Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CIRCLE ON THE CALENDAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: How awful to be certain Last Line: Is harder far to bear Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CIRCLES - AFTER SEEING IRELAND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Circles are easiest and earliest to build Last Line: My life lived in circles too Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CITY OF STONES - 1962 CLARYVILLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I walk in the city of stones Last Line: Lichened words, once watered with warm tears Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm 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 CLASS 1-A, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The boy is like the awkward, leggy colt Last Line: His hands will ache to hold a plow again Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CLEANING THE ATTIC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The room is full of curious ghosts Last Line: As they go up in smoke Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CLOUDS OF GRAY, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: When we dug her narrow bed Subject(s): Clouds; Farm Life COLDEST NIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Cold is a creature who pads and growls Last Line: He will get us all if the red fire dies! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COME, LET US WALK THIS LAND TOGETHER, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life COMMENCEMENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The tired old warriors on the hill Last Line: Give him a better blade to hold! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COMMERCIAL LEECH FARMING TODAY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although it never rivaled wheat, soybean Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers COMMERCIAL LEECH FARMING TODAY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although it never rivaled wheat, soybean Last Line: I like the story because it's true Subject(s): Farm Life COMPOSITION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sliced onions, pulled this morning from the row Last Line: Fit for a king, or for the farmer's supper Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CONFESSION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am part pagan Last Line: Who sneaks home from chasing deer Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CONFESSION, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Heavens, I haven't finished sinning yet! Last Line: To magnify god's glory when I'm saved Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality CONQUERORS: A PAGE IN HISTORY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The swath cut by the obsidian blade Last Line: A few coins washed up on a florida beach Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CONTRABAND, by INA H. BEAN Poem Text First Line: Lovelier than the glow Last Line: The prairie's contraband. Subject(s): Farm Life; Plants; Agriculture; Farmers; Planting; Planters CONVERSATION AT MIDNIGHT, by ADELINA ADALIS Poem Source First Line: One of midnight's charms is a muted terror Last Line: Over shimmering clouds of human warmth Subject(s): Farm Life CORN SONG, by BENJAMIN WALLACE DOUGLASS Poem Source First Line: Across the april valleys run Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life CORNPICKER POEM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sheds left out in the darkness Last Line: Is waiting, its its empty gas cans around it Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CORNPICKER POEM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sheds left out in the darkness Last Line: Somewhere the sullen chilled machine %is waiting, its empty gas cans around it Subject(s): Farm Life COUNTRY DOCTOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The doctor was an angry man Last Line: I am alive today Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COUNTRY DUSK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wind dies down, and if you Last Line: Meant to be Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life COUNTRY LORE: SOWING DAYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sow your wheat in muddy weather Last Line: In the dust your barley sow Subject(s): Farm Life;plants; Agriculture;farmers;planting;planters COUNTRY MIDWIFE: A DAY, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I bend over the woman Last Line: And I let her bleed, lord, I let her bleed Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Farm Life COUNTRY MUSIC, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I feel so lean Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Country Music; Divorce; Farm Life; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers 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 TRUCKS, by MONICA SHANNON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big trucks with apples Last Line: They know more trucks are coming %as surely as the moon Subject(s): Farm Life; Trucks And Trucking COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gypsy man and gypsy woman drinking tea Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Camps; Summer Camps; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue shadow of the wagon Last Line: Round and round the marigold Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons COURAGE, by CAROLINE CAIN DURKEE Poem Text First Line: Metallic sky, dull coppered slate Last Line: A whistle on the lips that cannot smile. Subject(s): Courage; Farm Life; Valor; Bravery; Agriculture; Farmers COVERLET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I would weave words for your first birthday Last Line: A gift to wrap the child I've yet to see Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CRADLE OF PEACE, by MARION S. O'NEIL Poem Source First Line: The eve of christmas: to the still, dark barn Subject(s): Farm Life CRAFTY FARMER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The song that I'm going to sing Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Farm Life CRAZY QUILT - NEW YORK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here earth holds pastures, meadows, airports Last Line: Little roads and paths, rail fences and old stone walls Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CREATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After the long dearth, the fallow time Last Line: The blank page sprouts with the new green words Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CROSS LOTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Young johnny burroughs went cross lots to school Last Line: But burroughs wandered cross lots all his days Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CROSSING THE TAPPAN ZEE BRIDGE IN WINTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Cars play a monotonous follow - the - leader Last Line: Clouds swirl up from the whirling wheels Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life CROWS, JUST BEFORE FLIGHT, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: The flock exceeds the tree Last Line: All of this seemed important to say before I said it Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Farm Life CUCUMBER, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow is knee-deep in the courtyard Last Line: It hasn't let up all morning Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Farm Life CUTTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer 'moves right up the line' Last Line: "and ""set,"" with father, ""'round the hill." Subject(s): Cattle; Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers CUTTING THE EASTER COLT, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: This saddlebag surgeon readies his tools Last Line: Reflected in the gold %chalice of the gelding's eye Subject(s): Farm Life CYCLE, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: The sun's hot rays reach to the earth Last Line: True progeny of the sun. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Miracles; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas DA FARMER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: I don'ta care eef all dees town Last Line: I don'ta care! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers DAKOTA SHOWERS, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining wheat and corn Last Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining corn and wheat. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Rain; South Dakota; Wheat; Agriculture; Farmers DANCE OF DEATH: FARMER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked with plow Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dirt; Farm Life; Fields DARK PRINCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I was young I knew the dark prince Last Line: Why did you wait so long? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DAY AT THE FARM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Hurrah! For a day with the farmer Subject(s): Farm Life DAY IN MAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Linda's dresses are billowed wide Last Line: Play - at - home day! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DAY MY FATHER CRIED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The day my father cried Last Line: That day my whole world changed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DAY THE ALLIGATOR CAME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I've never been sure what my fence is about Last Line: Any chance to communicate was missed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DE PROFUNDIS, by GEORG TRAKL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is a stubble field, where a black rain is falling Last Line: Angels of crystal rang out once more Subject(s): Expressionism - Poets; Farm Life DEATH ON SOUTH HILL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The old woman lay on the crumpled feather bed Last Line: At the door: if I can help, will you let me know? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DEBORAH, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: A song of deborah Subject(s): Farm Life DECEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The punctual sun hangs lower now Last Line: And warmth of christmas is heart - whole Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER NIGHT AT RUDOLPH FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A moonless night Last Line: For the holidays Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER PASTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Wintergreen and partridge berry Last Line: This is the lean - ribbed time of year Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER RAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: December rain is like no other rain Last Line: The last ablution of the dying year Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECEMBER WALK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Come with me to the snowy woods Last Line: Will watch us walk in the glistening wood! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DECONSTRUCTION, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Rummaging in rubble %critics are scribbling Last Line: In a farmer's stubble Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DEED OF GIFT, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When frost quavered for kennedy Last Line: Our short-lived leader said Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DEER IN THE GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Delicate hooves leave cloven prints Last Line: In the april dusk Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DEER SEASON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Three does slip from the woods at dawn Last Line: Sudden death Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DEFEATED FARMER, by MARK VAN DOREN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift as he will a wordless face Subject(s): Farm Life DEFIANT, COLD AND BRAVE, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: I found a violet today Subject(s): Farm Life DELTA FARM, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: A friend weighs little a wife Last Line: To tree at last my daughter learns %to walk Subject(s): Farm Life DESERTED FARMS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A foretimes, fruitfulness and tilth were here Last Line: Or toward the peopled cities set your face. Subject(s): Farm Life; Memory; New England; Agriculture; Farmers DESTITUTE, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: E was so good,' she sobbed Subject(s): Farm Life DIARIES OF JULIANA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not sea harvest or land harvest Last Line: A life I read and live as if it were my own Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DIGGING POTATERS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, you'll pick the dustiest day Last Line: And dream of saratoga chips. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Potatoes; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers DIGGING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The boy is barefooted in crisp frosty weather Last Line: The earth on his feet and the song in his heart Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DIKTYNNA THEA, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: We hunker by the fire Last Line: And a mouthful of feathers Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DINOSAUR HUNTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He sees them in the present tense Last Line: A hundred million years or so Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DISCOVERY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I never knew what water really meant Last Line: Pounded in me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DISCOVERY, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plowing the nest of the lark Last Line: On many a nest of song Subject(s): Farm Life DISHWATER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slap of the screen door, flat knock Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers DISPOSSESSED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Everything comes processed nowadays Last Line: Program. Compute. Respond by rote Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DISTANT THUNDER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The distant thunder rolling down the skies Last Line: Our plenty crumbles and our food is dust Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DO NOT FORGET, MY DEAR, THAT HE IS MINE, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life DOG AT FULL MOON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The full moon stirs some memory in the dog Last Line: For worlds long - buried he has never known Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DOG YOUNG AND OLD: 1. OBEDIENCE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I am the alpha male, %dispenser of her meat Last Line: Tumble her on her back %and bite her furry throat Variant Title(s): A Dog Young And Old: 1.obedienc Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DOG YOUNG AND OLD: 2. FIRST SPRING, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Daily the flocks increase %as the floodwaters rise Last Line: She lifts her curious nose %to scent the impending rain Variant Title(s): A Dog Young And Old: 2.first Sprin Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DOG YOUNG AND OLD: 3. SKUNKED AGAIN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Flurries of hoarfrost fall %like silver maple leaves Last Line: From the last clump of reeds %bursts an indignant hen Variant Title(s): A Dog Young And Old: 3.skunked Agai Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DOG YOUNG AND OLD: 4. DOG HEAVEN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Sprawled in the pickup box, %my old bitch is half-dead Last Line: And nine gutted pheasant cocks %pillow her dreaming head Variant Title(s): A Dog Young And Old: 4.dog Heave Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DOWN SUGAR LOAF BROOK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Walking with the water down sugar loaf brook Last Line: We can't keep up with it Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DOWNSTREAM, by LINDA HUSSA Poem Source First Line: In that house across the field they accommodate god's will Last Line: The neighbor hoards the sin of ignorance. The believer lives downstream Subject(s): Farm Life DREAM AND REALITY, by O. E. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: The farmer stood by the cottage door Last Line: On the rock-ribbed hills of maine. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Sons; Summer; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers DREAM OF LOST CITIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A dream of cities Last Line: Waiting to be found Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DREAMING OF LI PO, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Those whom death separates Last Line: And the dragons hungry Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DREM OF FARMHOUSES, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: My shadow, penetrated by dwy pastures Last Line: I work like a bee in the hive of the spirit Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life DRIED OUT, by GWENDOLEN HASTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This place was the first home we ever had Last Line: We was to have! The roses by the door! Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Agriculture; Farmers DRINK OF WATER AT THE SPRING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He kneels before the never - failing spring Last Line: And just as sure to find again the source Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DRINKING TIME, by DANIEL JAMES O'SULLIVAN Poem Source First Line: Two black heifers and a red Subject(s): Farm Life DRIVER, 1941 MODEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: How long before cars reach the heights Last Line: And knew more than the car! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The creek flames and the stunted willows all Last Line: Black stands the barn against a flawless sky. Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers DROUGHT, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds shouldered a path up the mountains Last Line: Under the sky that deafened from listening for rain Subject(s): Farm Life DROUGHT HARVEST, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: I am the drought-tormented sod Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life DRUNKEN SAGE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: An old pine is entwined with vines Last Line: He sips a cup of vinegar Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality DRY SPELL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The summer pasture shrivels in the heat Last Line: The poor relations, blossom endlessly! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life DURING THE FIRST THREE MINUTES OF LIFE, by JIM HEYNEN Poem Source First Line: The piglet %sucks Last Line: Looks up %into the sun Subject(s): Farm Life EARLY DAYS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've read the settlers, bless their souls Last Line: To borrow jest a carpet tack. Subject(s): Borrowers & Lenders; Farm Life; Vermont; Loans; Agriculture; Farmers EARTH CLOSET, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not much bigger than a dollhouse raised Last Line: The watchman's box is left %its closeness inside the weather Subject(s): Farm Life EARTH DWELLER, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was all the clods at once become Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers EARTH DWELLER, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was all the clods at once become Last Line: The world speaks everything to us. %it is our only friend Subject(s): Farm Life EARTH LIKE A MOTHER, by ETHEL JOHNSTON MCNAUGHT Poem Source First Line: Earth turns no beaten wanderer from her Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life EARTH-TILLER, by RYAN G. VAN CLEAVE Poem Source First Line: So where does he turn Last Line: & nose through hard shale %into the secrets of coffins Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Last Line: This deathless, gray, tiny farmer in the planet's soil Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men EBENEZER-GRAMS: 1. EBENEZER'S PROBLEM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With unkel eben weepin' Last Line: And learn him how ter fly! Subject(s): Death Valley; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ECLOGUE: FATHER COME HWOME, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother! Be the teaties done? Last Line: Zoo I shall goo up out o' the waÿ o' the waggon. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Fathers; Food & Eating; Homecoming; Winter; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers ECLOGUE: THE 'LOTMENTS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zoo you be in your groun' then, I do zee Last Line: If I could get a little patch o' ground. Subject(s): Duty; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Property; Social Protest; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Possessions ECLOGUE: THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morn t'ye, john. How b'ye? How b'ye? Last Line: Or I must goo to workhouse, I do fear. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Fences; Poverty; Property; Seasons; Social Protest; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, tom, how be'st? Zoo thou'st a-got thy neame Last Line: You'll goo vor wool, an' then come hwome a-sheär'd. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Economics; Fables; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Pigs; Politics & Government; Social Protest; Wages; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Boars; Hogs; Salaries ECLOGUE: TWO FARMS IN WOONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You'll lose your measter soon, then, I do vind Last Line: Why then we sartainly must starve. Good night! Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunger; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers ECLOGUES, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Where I lived the river %lay like a blue wrist Last Line: Itself for warmth & the windows %go white with frost Subject(s): Farm Life EDEN-STRANGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Things move and change and take on varying shapes Last Line: It's eden - strange Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EDGE OF FALL, by JUDY NACCA Poem Source First Line: The squirrels looked up from their foraging Last Line: Said the scythe to the meadow erupting with butterflies Subject(s): Farm Life EDUCATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: His thoughts fall neatly into patterns now Last Line: Like toads and diamonds in a fairy tale Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EGG AND DAUGHTER NIGHT, APRIL 1951, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So much of the soil out here has been sown by wind Last Line: The wind unwinds in the truck-thick streets Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Farm Life EIGHT POEMS ON EASTERN SLOPE: 1, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An abandoned fort for which no one cared Last Line: But of a bucket of water I am assured Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Farm Life EIGHTY-EIGHT AT MIDNIGHT, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A black calf bleats Last Line: While the pastures burn Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality ELEGY FOR DIKTYNNA, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Go if you must and swim %the dim waters of acheron %for actaeon Last Line: Passes to someone else's son %I'll whistle 'come' Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: DAYBREAK, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In this moment when the light starts up Last Line: And nothing will heal %under the rain's broken fingers Subject(s): Dawn; Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Last Line: A soil that sprouts nothing %for any of us Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; U.s. - Race Relations ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FOG, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you go to your window Last Line: There should be no reason to believe %I lived Subject(s): Farm Life; Fog; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: RAIN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When autumn rains flatten sycamore leaves Last Line: The skin of my belly will tighten like a belt %and there will be no reason for pockets Subject(s): Farm Life; Rain; San Joaquin Valley, California ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: STARS, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk the first stars appear Last Line: And an orange moon rises %to lead them, like a shepherd, toward dawn Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Stars ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Last Line: In a most of blond locusts, %returning to the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Last Line: And I take on another life Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind EMERGENCY HAYING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Coming home with the last load I ride standing Last Line: To the fields where they can only die Subject(s): Farm Life; Hay & Haymaking; Agriculture; Farmers EMILIA, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halfway up the hemlock valley turnpike Last Line: Deep in fancies of a fairy bride. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers EMPTY BARN, DEAD FARM, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Houses are incidents, barns four-square and real Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers EMPTY CUP, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: Time took her yough and scored her house Subject(s): Farm Life EMPTY NEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sedate the house and quiet now Last Line: I think that I could work Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life END OF SUMMER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An agitation of the air Subject(s): Farm Life; Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers END OF SUMMER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An agitation of the air Last Line: Order their populations forth, %and a cruel wind blows Subject(s): Farm Life; Middle Age; Poetry And Poets ENGINEER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The small boy, intent, with pants rolled knee high Last Line: The creek went on talking. It would have the last %word Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EPIGRAM: 11, 18. TO LUPUS, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me a farm - so you called it, at least Last Line: To swap farm for a thirty-cent meal Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Farm Life ERBACCIA, by EDWARD KLEINSCHMIDT Poem Source First Line: Especially overwhelmed by weeds Last Line: Black hands of the father, of the fabbro Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry And Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891) ESCAPE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We saw a doe at friendly dusk Last Line: The soul a breathing space Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ET TU BRUTE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A painted mummer strikes a temple gong Last Line: Truly, caesar, the arm of rome is long Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality EVERY TIME I ROLL UP TOWELS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Every time I put away towels Last Line: Or wilt lettuce, I remember Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EVERYTHING ELSE YOU CAN GET YOU TAKE, by ROBERT PATRICK DANA Poem Source First Line: It's that kind of day Last Line: You can get you take Alternate Author Name(s): Dana, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life EVICTED, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New gray hairs are adorning my venerable Last Line: Alarm; and we shall join the paupers, out at the county farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Modesty; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers EXILE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: How well he knew the geography of the land Last Line: Like ranks of firewood he had helped to stack Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EXMOOR VERSES: 2. SATURN, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my farm, from her farm Last Line: The planet saturn burned. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Farm Life; Kisses; Agriculture; Farmers EXPEDITION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The ants came marching in perfect order Last Line: They'll send another expedition tomorrow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EXPERIENCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I was young, I wrote of death Last Line: I wept, and could not say his name Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life EXPULSION, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Six weeks of drought Last Line: With an iron brand %singeing his hands Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FABLE: THE FARMER AND THE HORSE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a vain world, and all things show it Last Line: But take the world as he shall find it.' Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Farm Life; Horses; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers FACES AT THE FIRST FARMWORKERS' CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, by JOSE MONTOYA Poem Source First Line: Just the other day Last Line: For history %and forever Subject(s): Farm Life FAILURE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Tractor and combine axle-deep in muck Last Line: He cannot wholly blame the early snows Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FAILURES OF PROMISE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A flock of crows Last Line: Buried the standing corn Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FAINT THUNDER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Once I was a hunter Last Line: Better he than I Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FAME, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Mockery is bitter %as arthritis to a knitter Last Line: Knit for eternity. %drink in anonymity Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FAMILIAR THINGS HAVE STRENGTH TO BRACE THE, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life FAREWELL TO THE FARM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coach is at the door at last Last Line: Good-bye, good-bye, to everything! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 40 Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calves with blue cloudy eyes Last Line: Of the world, a manuka nut in the sun's gaze Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Farm Life FARM AUCTION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Just yesterday, they started keeping house Last Line: More than a farm, when they bid in his land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FARM CART, by ELEANOR FARJEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The cart that carries hay Last Line: But never have it borne, my lass, %so sweet a load as you Subject(s): Farm Life FARM CHILD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look at this village boy, his head is stuffed Last Line: Earth breeds and beckons to the stubborn plough Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Youth FARM FAMILIES: 1, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Snug - the robe sewn from coarse cotton Last Line: Farm families have joys of their own, %not in a class with those of kings Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Farm Life FARM FAMILIES: 2, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's late, the children come home from school Last Line: We don't ask you to become rich and famous, %but when the time comes, work hard in the fields! Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Farm Life FARM HOME BY CU-LAI MOUNTAIN, by WANG SHIH-CHEN Poem Source First Line: On I go through empty azure mist Last Line: Nor will I be slow to plow my own Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Farm Life FARM IN WESTERN MINNESOTA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at childhood, I see the yellow rose bush Last Line: Was work to do, but no one learned how to say good-bye Subject(s): Farm Life; Minnesota FARM LABOURER, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: God, am I not dead yet? Said ward, his ear Last Line: And a lark flashed its needle down the west Subject(s): Farm Life FARM LIFE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young the farmers' shacks Last Line: Times have changed—and every change seems always for the best! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM MOTHER, by ERMA MELLISH Poem Text First Line: Folks said that marthy'd never lived Last Line: Of small red feet upon the stairs . . . Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers FARM NIGHT, by SANDS-ROUX Poem Text First Line: Now, silence resting on the silvered hill Last Line: A thought which has a word that all may learn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Silence; Agriculture; Farmers FARM ON THE GREAT PLAINS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A telephone line goes cold Last Line: Pacing toward what I know Subject(s): Farm Life; Mormons FARM TABLEAU, by BETSY WINTER Poem Text First Line: Upon a farm, with soil of rust-red clay Last Line: Then turns and plods, with patient steps, toward home. Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Labor & Laborers; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers FARM WIDOW, by JESSIE HOLT Poem Text First Line: The green grain mocks me Last Line: By lantern light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Widows & Widowers; Agriculture; Farmers FARM WIFE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hers is the clean apron, good for fire Last Line: Where men may come, sons and lovers, %daring the cold seas of her eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women FARM WIFE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark as the spring river, the earth Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM WIFE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark as the spring river, the earth Last Line: Its black mouth like a scar Subject(s): Farm Life FARM-CIRCLE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peter jersey walked this hill a hundred and hundred Last Line: Maybe I'm love of his work as well -- maybe I'm peter jersey, too. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM-YARD SONG, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hill the farm boy goes Last Line: "murmuring, ""so, boss! So!" Variant Title(s): Evening At The Farm Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMER, by ENOCH C. DOW Poem Source First Line: I am at peace, what is life's goal Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER, by VASSO KALAMARAS Poem Source First Line: They were full of callouses Last Line: How could he love another country? Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER, by JACK MYERS Poem Source First Line: He counted himself no different Last Line: Inside it, he figured, was him Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER, by DORA MIELKE PERNOT Poem Text First Line: A man who loves the soil Last Line: Builds for him a life of fullness earned. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMER, by PRINCE REDCLOUD Poem Source First Line: The farmer, worn from Last Line: Welcome, warm supper Subject(s): Farm Life; United States FARMER, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seasons waiting the miracle Subject(s): Farm Life; Nature; Agriculture; Farmers FARMER, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Seasons waiting the miracle Last Line: As much the earth's as his Subject(s): Farm Life; Nature FARMER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still-blistering late afternoon Last Line: Like minor disappointments %instructive poisons, something he could use Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER DYING, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: All things are still at last. The drone of bees Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER MUSES, by GLENISTER HOSKINS Poem Source First Line: I have watched the slow growth of tall Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER WHIPPLE - BACHELOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a mystery to see me - a man o' fifty-four Last Line: To git a pair o' license fer to marry mary brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Single People; Agriculture; Farmers; Bachelors; Unmarried People FARMER'S BOY, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where noble grafton spread his rich domains Subject(s): Farm Life; Landscape FARMER'S DAUGHTER, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: There's always unseasonable weather Last Line: I sleep with one eye shut %keeping a weather eye out Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER'S MARKET, by JOHN KOOISTRA Poem Source First Line: Men and women Last Line: Already their hands %turn into vegetables Subject(s): Farm Life; Markets FARMER'S MARKET, by MARILYNNE THOMAS WALTON Poem Source First Line: Outside, back of the mall Last Line: Eat, to take back what the earth gave Subject(s): Farm Life; Markets; Vegetables FARMER'S OLD WIFE; A SUSSEX WHISTLING SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was an old farmer in sussex did dwell Last Line: I have been a tormenter the whole of my life, %but I ne'er was tormented till I met with your wife Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER'S PRAYER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Spirit of the wheat Last Line: Feed a hungry world Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FARMER'S PRIDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Some folks transplant rice for wages Last Line: Then I feel at peace Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER'S THOUGHTS, by CH'U KUANG-HSI Poem Source First Line: Spring came, with orioles singing Last Line: Now my heart can find nothing to care for Subject(s): Farm Life FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Last Line: Better, my lover, dead Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; God; Marriage; Religion FARMERS, by THEODORE OLSON Poem Text First Line: Farmers grow kindred to the soil they till Last Line: Warming to dim, great dreams of birth and god. Alternate Author Name(s): Olson, Ted Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMERS, by KATHLEEN PEIRCE Poem Source First Line: Never able to enter Last Line: Also, being human, %there was that need %of a returning place %when so much is denied Subject(s): Farm Life FARMERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the farmers in their fields Last Line: Wisdom and discontent? Variant Title(s): Agricolae Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Love; Quarrels; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers; Arguments; Disagreements FARMERS, FALLING DOWN, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the distance there are several trees Last Line: Sympathy the unruly sky parts now into flocks Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMERS, FALLING DOWN, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the distance there are several trees Last Line: It mattered. One trembles so to think of it you hold her. %sympathies the unruly sky parts now into Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Farm Life FARMHAND, by PAMELA BURDAK Poem Source First Line: You say there never was a fence Last Line: The dark welcomes this diversion Subject(s): Farm Life FARMHANDS' REFRAIN, by H. H. LEWIS Poem Source First Line: You reprocrat squires in the farm bureau Last Line: Finding somebody else's god up there %just a-ghosting for somebody else! Subject(s): Farm Life FARMHOUSES THAT AT ANCHOR SEEMED, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: The leaves that chased me never won Last Line: And the press that takes the print also wears the plate down Subject(s): Aging; Farm Life FARMING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer drives his team afield, and Last Line: Things like these, he fails to smile and sing. Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains FARMING ALL NIGHT, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I dreamed of a lush stand of hard spring wheat Last Line: Ruinous harvest rain %and flooded barley rotting in the swale Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FARMING HOMES BY WEI RIVER, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: The setting light falls on a hamlet Last Line: At this moment I yearn for freedom and ease, %and, downcast, I sing 'hard straits!' Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farm Life FARMING PETER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And there the scarecrow walked Last Line: The high road telling him %his saviour's face was of straw Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life FARMYARD, by DANIELA ATTANASIO Poem Source First Line: One black horse standing by the gate Subject(s): Farm Life FAT OF THE LAND, by GEORGIANA VALOYCE SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: Walking to public school Last Line: Beneath the bare peach tree Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Native Americans; Soil FAT OF THE LAND, by GEORGIANA VALOYCE-SANCHEZ Poem Source First Line: Walking to public school beyond the housing project compound Last Line: To pat the earth %beneath the bare peach tree Subject(s): Farm Life FATHER OF THE MAN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Last night I sought the lost scout in my dreams Last Line: And I confuse the searcher with the lost Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Homosexuality FEATHERS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A warbler yellower %and smaller than a flower Last Line: In the finger-drifting winds Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FEBRUARY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A coyote hides in a draw Last Line: So hunters dream of fall Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FEBRUARY QUILT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Uneven days of winter never match Last Line: Here is my february quilt, a strange mismatch! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FEBRUARY THAW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wind's voice strikes more gently on our ears Last Line: Who thought a february thaw was spring! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FECUND COMING, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Flames leap from the logs Last Line: Reel my indignant dogs Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FEED, by RAYMOND KNISTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For danny whistling slowly Last Line: Then lean again to scoop up the swill. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FEEDING THE CHICKENS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sharp crayon colors illustrate the scene Last Line: The scene is always near, not years away Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FEEDING THE GULLS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Winter gulls circle the deserted beach Last Line: They snatch it from the air Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FELIS HORRIBILIS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Vaulting the frozen river Last Line: Sporting a white cravat Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FENCE WIRE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too tight, it is running over Last Line: Whether outside around, or in Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Agriculture; Farmers FENCE WIRE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too tight, it is running over Last Line: Whether outside, around, or in Subject(s): Farm Life FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Last Line: Time held me green and dying %though I sang in my chains like the sea Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth FIELD MAGIC, by DOROTHY DOW Poem Text First Line: A black velvet cow Last Line: Could be heaven, too! Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fields; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELD OF STUBBLE, LYING SERE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: On our new england farms Variant Title(s): Poem: 1407; Poem: 141 Subject(s): Farm Life FIELD POEM, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When the foreman whistled %my brother and I Last Line: I saw the leaves of cotton plants %like small hands %waving good-bye Subject(s): Farm Life FIELD THEORY, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In those days they grew sweet potatoes Subject(s): Farm Life FIELDS OF THOUGHT, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: For him the walls are not finality Last Line: Food for her dark fidelity to light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FINALITY, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farm was lonely, set so far Last Line: Upon a bird! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FINDING THE CENTER, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Charles and I had played there all along Last Line: Of the state %of %california Subject(s): California; Farm Life; Geography; Labor And Laborers FIRE CEREMONY, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl called out to her horse Subject(s): Fire; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FIRST BIRTH, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I had not been there before where the vagina opens Last Line: Wobbling to his feet, the dumb bull, copernicus Subject(s): Birth; Cattle; Farm Life FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 18. COMPLAINT OF THE MORPETHSHIRE FARMER, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the up-platform at morpeth station Last Line: As barren as her deck Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 18. COMPLAINT OF THE MORPETHSHIRE FARMER, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the up-platform at morpeth station Last Line: My sons'll see the land I am leaving %as barren as her deck Subject(s): Farm Life FIRST CROP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He looked upon that rocky place Last Line: The first crop is stones in anything new Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FIRST CROP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Mustard green and water cress Last Line: Appeases ancient hungering Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FIRST HAND, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: From asphalt to dirt road to muck Last Line: In the rain, knee-deep in mud Subject(s): Farm Life FIRST SNOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: On fields and pastures Last Line: Of the snow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FISH WEATHER VANE - CLARYVILLE CHURCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The weather vane is shilly shallying today Last Line: And mackerel skies slow varying winds in motion Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLIES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers FLIES, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side Last Line: I planned long ago I would live here, somebody's grandfather Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents FLIRTING WITH A PIG, by ALEKSANDAR RISTOVIC Poem Source First Line: Come to me pig, you who dress yourself as a courtier Last Line: By turns throwing curses and praises upon you Subject(s): Farm Life FLORIDA - ALIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like to think that florida Last Line: And every ditch full of the soup of life Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLOWERING BASSWOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In summer forest tarrying Last Line: Is sweeter than the first Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLOWERS FOR JULIANA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Andrew brought flowers from the pasture Last Line: Andrew always brought me flowers, she would say Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FLYING CHANGE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The canter has two stride patterns, one on the right lead Last Line: I hold myself immobile in bright air, %sustained in time astride the flying change Subject(s): Farm Life FLYING OFF, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Thoughts will not be tethered Last Line: In flight through thinning air Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOOT REFLEXOLOGIST, FARMERS AND CHRISTMAS, by ROBERT A. FINK Poem Source First Line: For twenty bucks an hour, the old and lame Last Line: A hundred-acre farm in oklahoma Subject(s): Farm Life; Religion FOR A GOOD COMPANION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We ate stone soup together Last Line: Alone is chill and bleak Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR CAROL, ON HER TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is the april hour before the sun Last Line: But now, I look at you, and it is spring Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR DANIEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sorry there's nothing in the nest Last Line: All I can find is a thin - shelled doubt Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR JAN, WITH LOVE, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: John he comes to my house Last Line: Because john's red sow that fucker she died Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farm Life; Pigs; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs FOR MARY, BORN IN TROUBLED TIMES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The nurse held out a snugly wrapped cocoon Last Line: May friendly stars reach down and comfort you Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOR MILAREPA, IN RUSE, ON PAPER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: These farmers dressed in gold and blue Last Line: In their pear tree will be forgiven. Variant Title(s): For Confucius, In Ruse, On Rice Paper Subject(s): Disdain; Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Scorn; Agriculture; Farmers FOR THE EATING OF SWINE, by RODNEY JONES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have learned sloppiness from an old sow Last Line: What pity should I feel, or gratitude, raising you %on my fork as all the dead shall be risen? Subject(s): Farm Life FOR THE HOG KILLING, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them stand still for the bullet, and stare the shooter in the eye Last Line: By our hunger, by this provisioning, we renew the bond Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FOR THE HOG KILLING, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them stand still for the bullet, and stare the shooter in the eye Last Line: For by our hunger, by this provisioning, we renew the bond Subject(s): Farm Life FOR THE THEBAN DEAD, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The sacred band is overthrown Last Line: Sags on his bloody horse and weeps Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FOREIGN LAND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: May poles - merry - go - rounds Last Line: Childhood is a foreign land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FOREST PLANTATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: These stubborn acres never liked the plow Last Line: We will restore its heritage of trees Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FORGOTTEN WOUNDS, by HELEN DYKSTRA Poem Source First Line: The hoofprint on the tender blade of grass Subject(s): Farm Life FORSAKEN FARMHOUSE, by LYDIA HAMMOND GALE Poem Text First Line: That grayed beam hewn from nearby lot Last Line: Whence all his brood saw life begun. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FORSAKEN ISLE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Homing flocks %of guillemots Last Line: Hovels tumble %into rubble Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FOX FARM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pasture a shire Last Line: Woman's neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Foxes; Horses; Wilderness; Agriculture; Farmers FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear Last Line: By setting-free the soil Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States FRED'S STORE, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: What's become of fred mayberry Subject(s): Farm Life FREEDOM IS LONELY, by GERTRUDE SCOTT JEWELL Poem Source First Line: Freedom is such a lonely thing! Subject(s): Farm Life FREEDOM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We came to visit the cow / dying of fever Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FREEDOM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We came to visit the cow %dying of fever Last Line: And the few who loved him know this until they die Subject(s): Farm Life FRESHET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The brook begins to leap and show its claws Last Line: The house cat is a tiger for an hour Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FRINGE BENEFITS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Lib alone and like it if you choose Last Line: Fringe benefits attached are simply great! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROM A BUS WINDOW IN CENTRAL OHIO, JUST BEFORE A THUNDER SHOWER, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cribs loaded with roughage huddle together Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Farm Life; Storms; Agriculture; Farmers FROM A CITY DESK, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The boy would bring the oxen in from work Last Line: The boy comes back, and he cannot forget Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROM A LETTER, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: There is always a little space of time here, between the close of Subject(s): Farm Life FROM MY DIARY: OCTOBER DAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trees have briefly come to bloom Last Line: Before they fall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROM THE COURIER'S POUCH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: As you like it made its debut last night Last Line: We in the know thought he stole the show Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF SALT RIVER, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: Imagine this view seen from the slope Last Line: From here: this tilt of north %in your life Subject(s): Farm Life; Wyoming FROM THE SOIL (TWO MONOLOGUES), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aham a mighty simple man and only Last Line: All over hill and dale. ... Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers FROST DOGS ARE RUNNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Frost dogs are running Last Line: And leave it black Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FROST ON THE WINDOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Frost spider is weaving her fragile web Last Line: With the fabric of dreams and mystery Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life FRUIT, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: In the white pasture of the sun Last Line: And that the milky way is an orchard Subject(s): Farm Life FUGITIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I miss the little sound of leaves Last Line: Winter - weary mouse Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GANYMEDE AND THE EAGLE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A sudden blow, and outstretched talons clasp Last Line: How could he miss the maidens or the sheep? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality GAP IN THE HEDGE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That man, prytherch, with the torn cap Last Line: At early morning, when the light is right, %and I look up suddenly at a bird's flight Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life GATHERING OF SWALLOWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The gathering of swallows lasts for days Last Line: Then silence hovers and the birds are gone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GEESE STOPPING OVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A torrent of birds Last Line: Except for a few soft settling - down words Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GEORGE, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: Didn't own much Last Line: Be poor and follow me Subject(s): Character; Farm Life; Men; Poverty GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk back / toward the frog pond, carrying Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service; Agriculture; Farmers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk back %toward the frog pond, carrying Last Line: And the kyrie of a chainsaw down off wheelock mountain Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service GETTING UP THE WINTER WOOD IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard a dozen farmers say Last Line: You wish you owned another stove! Subject(s): Farm Life; Forests; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods; Woodsmen GHAZALS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The alfalfa was sweet and damp in fields where shepherds Last Line: Two walls of bone, brain veering, bucking in fatal velocity? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farm Life; Fights; Imaginary Conversations; Agriculture; Farmers GIFT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Mark gave the boy the shell before he left Last Line: The old man knew he had eternity Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GIFT OF HERA, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In an unbroken line Last Line: Learned at his father's knee? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality GIFT OF REST BE WITH YOU WHERE YOU LIE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life GIVING NOTICE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I'm through with tending sacred cows Last Line: But give no milk Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GLAD ACRE, by LEONE RICE GRELLE Poem Text First Line: They said he'd starve Last Line: A hundred-fold. Subject(s): Farm Life; Happiness; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight GLEANERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Empty pods rattle on stiff brown vines Last Line: Field mice take what the pheasants scorn Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GLORY HOLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Everyone should have a glory hole Last Line: Everyone should have a glory hole! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GOD AND THE FARMER, by FRANKLIN ERASTUS PIERCE Poem Text First Line: God sat down with the farmer Last Line: A toiler more old than toil. Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers GOD MAKES A RIME, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life GOD'S OWN, by MRS. L. J. HOWARD JR. Poem Text First Line: There's wondrous living beauty in all things loved by god Last Line: And his 'biding place, I'm certain, is my mississippi farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Mississippi; Agriculture; Farmers GODLESS SKY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Airborne, I view the flood Last Line: Under the godless sky Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality 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 GOOD HARVEST, by YEN CHEN Poem Source First Line: Last winter, %the agricultural co-op was formed. Last Line: Is a harvest of bliss and love Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage GOOD YEAR, by ALEJANDRO CARRION Poem Source First Line: A song sprang to their lips Subject(s): Farm Life GOOSEFEATHERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve I sat by myself in the steamliner Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers GORSE FIRES, by MICHAEL LONGLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cattle out of their byres are dungy still, lambs Last Line: And celandines and white may and gorse flowers Subject(s): Farm Life GRANDFATHER, by TOM CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: This would be before the war when sweet butter came Last Line: God in the poem? Some barred-rocks running around? Subject(s): Farm Life GRANDMOTHER POEM #2: EUNICE AND THE PLOWING BULL, by SEAN HILL Poem Source First Line: On the farm we growed cotton for sale and corn Last Line: Walk down to the pond and wade into that green brown pool Subject(s): Farm Life GRANNY'S HERB GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Caraway, rosemary, marjoram and sage Last Line: To keep and tend a garden so the blooms stand tall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GRAY; FOR A PICTURE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firelight gilds the patterns on the walls Last Line: And wonder who shall do the like again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Graves; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones GREASING BOOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To keep a feller's boots in trim Last Line: When settled weather struck your boots. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers GREAT-GRANDMOTHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Knuckles and knobs and half - obscured scars Last Line: Love flows through her arms. She is ageless, content Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GREEN COMBINE, by JANET KAUFFMAN Poem Source First Line: When you drive by in your green combine Last Line: And the things around here gone wild %gone to seed Subject(s): Farm Life GREEN FIELDS, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By this part of the century few are left who believe Last Line: And around him again were the last days of the world Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Farm Life GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honey I'd split your kindling Last Line: & my dove Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains; Agriculture; Farmers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) GRETEL, by TOM CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: Don't say, 'who can understand %this life' Last Line: Enough, and can find the path Subject(s): Farm Life GRETEL (II), by TOM CRAWFORD Poem Source First Line: We are like two old miners Last Line: A red plane scoots over the trees %now, and disappears Subject(s): Farm Life GROWING OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I want to milk this old cow dry Last Line: Kicking and squalling Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life GROWING RICH, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why are you pale, my nora? Last Line: Are all upon my heart. Subject(s): Farm Life; Wealth; Agriculture; Farmers; Riches; Fortunes HADRIAN BEREAVED, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The white nile falls. Osiris dies Last Line: As I crown his tousled head Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality HAIL STORM, by JOHN COLMAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: We stood knee-deep among the corn Last Line: And found him hanging in the barn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Storms; Suicide; Agriculture; Farmers HAIL TO MUD!, by FRANCES V. STEGEMAN Poem Source First Line: Come bend the knee to the fertile mud Subject(s): Farm Life HANDBOOK OF TOBACCO-FARMING, by SHELBY STEPHENSON Poem Source First Line: Since there are no two tobacco-farmers in the world Last Line: Full of stubble %and slow man barbour's drawl Subject(s): Farm Life; Smoking HANDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: They were farmer's hands - sturdy, competent Last Line: Lifting a small boy down from a load of hay Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HANDSOME DAN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Like a horny boar Last Line: To the banker's knife Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality HARD RED WHEAT, by PAUL ZARZYSKI Poem Source First Line: When it makes the shovel ring Last Line: Engraved in red gold he knows %today will make the shovel ring Subject(s): Farm Life HARDWEED PATH GOING, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every evening, down into the hardweed Last Line: Hardening through the mind and night of the first freeze Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Farm Life HARVEST, by GERTRUDE RYDER BENNETT Poem Text First Line: He spoke of harvest, pointed to the field Last Line: She smiled and brushed a happy tear away. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers HARVEST, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: The city guests leave %in cars they drive Last Line: The fields, the sleeping world, the milky way Subject(s): Farm Life HARVEST, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: East of the sun's slant, in the vineyard that never failed Last Line: From the thick harvest that was not mine Subject(s): Farm Life HARVEST AND LIBERTY; BEFORE ELECTION, 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The harvest moon is waning Last Line: Until the work be done! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Farm Life; Freedom; Harvest; U.s. - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty HARVEST OF SORROWS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When swift brown swallows Last Line: The sows will farrow Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality HARVEST TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain Last Line: Then sleeps and dreams for a year again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Metaphor; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Similes HAUNTED BY WATERS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: You strive to roll your prose Last Line: And your murdered brother Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality HAWSE WORK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop! There's the wild bunch to right of the trail Last Line: Give me a day on the hawse work! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HAY FOR THE HORSES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He had driven half the night Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HAY FOR THE HORSES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had driven half the night Last Line: And damnit, that's just what %I've gone and done Subject(s): Farm Life HAY SCUTTLE, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The holes in the floor of the barn loft Last Line: Only way out to the sun is down, %through the exquisite filth Subject(s): Farm Life HAY-MEAKEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis merry ov a zummer's day Last Line: The vo'k in haÿ-vield all day long. Subject(s): Farm Life; Happiness; Hay & Haymaking; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight HAYING TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Small creatures meet the judgment day Last Line: And this small world is upside down Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HEAD OF THE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Under his skin he wasn't brave at all Last Line: That no one guessed the lion was a mouse Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HEADING WEST ON I-70, MARYLAND, by ALAN BRITT Poem Source First Line: A rusty cow drifts across a green field Last Line: Dissolves into the static of the smoky hills Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Farm Life; Maryland HEALING BEAUTY, by ETHEL B. CHENEY Poem Source First Line: These are the things that bring a man Subject(s): Farm Life HEART'S DAUGHTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You are my heart's daughter Last Line: You are my heart's daughter Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HEAVIER, by PIERRE REVERDY Poem Source First Line: They waited for the man stretched out Last Line: On the pedestal of clouds Subject(s): Farm Life HEMLOCKS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The poetry of hemlocks is deep and green Last Line: The quiet aisles are sanctuary Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HEN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hungers to whistle. She longs to hear a cry ring out Last Line: A straw mattress and an underestimated egg Subject(s): Farm Life HENHOUSE, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hens, arriving early from the day's pickings Last Line: Her fluttering eyelids shutting out the world Subject(s): Farm Life; Hens; Roosters; Sleep HERD LADDIE, by ALEXANDER SMART Poem Source Poem Explanation First Line: It's a lang time yet till the kye gae hame Subject(s): Farm Life HERE COMES FEBRUARY!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here comes that old hag, february Last Line: When she'll be gone and leave march in her place Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HERE I SHALL WAIT, by FLOSSIE DEANE CRAIG Poem Source First Line: You were longing for me again today Subject(s): Farm Life HERE IN THE MARSHES, by ELISABETH G. PALMER Poem Source First Line: Here are cowslips wading Subject(s): Farm Life; Swamps HI AND WALTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: By his drawers, so itchy, roomy Last Line: Good companion like his hilda! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HIDDEN, by CHARLES WYATT Poem Source First Line: When the river flooded Last Line: A weed shakes, trapped beneath a bird Subject(s): Farm Life; Floods HIDE AND SEEK, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit and watch at the window-pane Last Line: As I waited them below. Subject(s): Mortality; Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Play HIGH OVER THE FARM SHOP THE SWALLOWS NEST, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: With gifts from the strange, quiet world outside Subject(s): Farm Life HILL FARMER SPEAKS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the farmer, stripped of love Last Line: Over the grasses rough with dew %is, listen, listen, I am a man like you Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life HILLSIDE FOSSILS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sea shells are bedded in the gray rock ledge Last Line: Their seal and symbol, and their sign and mark Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HILLTOP FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: South hill in summer sun, dusted with gold Last Line: Title reverts to the returning trees Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HIRED MAN AND THE MAGIC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After chores were done Last Line: Into his pocket the music went Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HIRELING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cars pass him by; he'll never own one Last Line: Of a face splintered by life's stone Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life HIS SPINE CURVED JUST ENOUGH, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HOEING, by GARY SOTO Poet's Biography First Line: During march while hoeing long rows / of cotton Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HOEING, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: During march while hoeing long rows %of cotton Last Line: Rose and fell from my chin %touching land %for the first time Subject(s): Farm Life HOGGEREL, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: How many pigs %can dance on a pin? Last Line: Jump over the moon Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality HOLLYHOCK TEA, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: When I grow old, I'll raise turnips Subject(s): Farm Life HOME COMING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: To the place of beginning, the old deed read Last Line: And look across the blue - green hills of home Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HOME FROM TOWN, by DOROTHY WARDELL BOICE Poem Source First Line: The road from town was sweet with clover Subject(s): Farm Life HOOVES OF TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: While I dream Last Line: The hooves of time are galloping Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HOP PICKING IN KENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fine betsy the bunter from london Last Line: When they go hop picking in kent Subject(s): Farm Life;life; Agriculture;farmers HOPE, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Out of the wreckage of my dreams Subject(s): Farm Life HORSE, by FAYE KICKNOSWAY Poem Source First Line: He'd rent the horse and it sounding like it had asthma Last Line: As we walked in the slow dark %toward home Subject(s): Farm Life HORSE-DOCTOR, by KATHERINE PIERPOINT Poem Source First Line: Little old man with a strong farmyard smell on him Last Line: Twenty different kinds of shit, at least Subject(s): Farm Life HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy here Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy here Last Line: A song, whatever is said Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields HOUSE OF EARTH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Infinity and dandelions Last Line: I shall explore Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HOW JOHN QUITE THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody on the old farm here but mother, me and john Last Line: As you'd admit, ef you could see the way the crops turns out! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Seasons; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers HOW TO MAKE RHUBARB WINE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the patch some afternoon / in early summer, fuzzy with beer Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HOW TO MAKE RHUBARB WINE, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the patch some afternoon %in early summer, fuzzy with beer Last Line: Bottled and ready for the years, %and smile. You've done it awfully well Subject(s): Farm Life HUBCAPS, by ROBERT MORGAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The tractor runs over dirt and shapes it, turning Last Line: Old hubcaps burning all night in the creek Subject(s): Farm Life HUCKLEBERRYING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Let's go huckleberrying in the hilltop pasture Last Line: And spicy pink azalea and stiff hardhack Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HUMAN CONDITION, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there is a forest anywhere Last Line: There are these farms Subject(s): Farm Life HUNGER, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Ah, my belly's empty Last Line: I could eat money Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunger HUSBANDRY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: And what does the farmer's daughter think Last Line: And thinks: 'when I marry, I'll marry a farmer.' Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fathers And Daughters; Girls; Milk HUSON BURYING GROUND, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This stony catskill field along the huson road Last Line: Some part of ireland's in this huson ground Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life HYMN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF HARTFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, o god, the shepherd kings Last Line: Jehovah, god of all. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers I AM KEENLY DISAPPOINTED. I EAGERLY AWAIT, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zug. / zumph. These words Subject(s): Farm Life; Comic Strips; Agriculture; Farmers I AM THE PLOW, by A. HEINRICH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life I BORROWED FIRE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In chill sad times Last Line: Where can I borrow fire? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I CARE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I mourn the passing of condor great blue whale panther Last Line: I care Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I GIVE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: I give, bequeath, devote, devise Subject(s): Farm Life I HAVE A LITTLE SON WHO TALKS OF WAR, by FLOSSIE DEANE CRAIG Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life I HAVE HEARD THE CENTAUR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I saw the centaur leaping at the sky Last Line: And felt winds blow from pastures wild and blue Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I HAVE SILVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have silver every day Last Line: Tap softly on my bedroom window Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I KNOW THERE WILL BE PEACE WHERE SILENCE IS, by CAROL GRIDLEY Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life I LIKE TO FIND A PUDDING STONE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like to find a pudding stone Last Line: As sure as change Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I LIKE WORDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like a gaudy word or two Last Line: And loving words that go unsaid Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I NEVER LEARN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My heart was hurt too often Last Line: Or reaching for the stars Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I ONCE KNEW A MAN WHO HAD WILD HORSES KILLED, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He had had wild horses killed one time and %they rode him to his grave Subject(s): Farm Life I SCHLUMP AROUND THE FARM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Checking the private lives of mice Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farm Life; Nature I THINK I'LL TAKE MY SON AND DAUGHTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I think I'll take my son and daughter Last Line: But best of all for naps, sundown! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I WANT TO GO BACK, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Isn't that a wound? Subject(s): Boys; Children; Farm Life; Nature; Seasons; Swamps I'D LIKE TO TAKE LIFE BY THE THROAT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trees exult with color Last Line: And fight and scream and claw Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life I'M SORRY FOR THE DEAD TODAY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "go down the fields to ""hay" Subject(s): Farm Life ICARUS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When my wings grow long Last Line: Some day Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ICE STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The shabby pasture, bedraggled and brown Last Line: The wind is the bull in the china shop! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IDES OF MARCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The morning bonfire of the sun Last Line: For life is waiting with a sharpened blade Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IF I COULD ONLY REMEMBER UNTIL MORNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The flights of thought insomnia brings Last Line: Seem dull and ordinary! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IF I HAD ONE I'D TRY IT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: If you really must sort all your diamonds some day Last Line: But a real one will squeak when it's touched with %dry ice! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IF THAT BE YOUTH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Oh, I was young, and I was brave Last Line: That unawareness back Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IF WE COULD HEAR WITH GOD, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: If we could hear all prayer with god Subject(s): Farm Life IF YOU GRAB A CHICKEN, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source Last Line: Will remain ten or more minutes as if %spellbound Subject(s): Farm Life ILLINOIS FARMER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury this old illinois farmer with respect Last Line: Dream of illinois corn. Subject(s): Farm Life; United States; Agriculture; Farmers; America IMPERATIVE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undisturbed, and stubbornly repeating Subject(s): West (u.s.); Iowa; Farm Life; Southwest; Pacific States; Agriculture; Farmers IMPROVED FARM LAND, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall timber stood here once, here on a corn belt farm along the monon Subject(s): Deforestation; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN A FALLOW FIELD IN THE NORTH IS A PLOW THAT HURTS ME, by LI SHIZHENG Poem Source Last Line: From a distant ancestor Subject(s): Farm Life IN A SUNNY NOOK, by HANS VILHELM KAALUND Poem Source First Line: Gently illumined by the april sun Subject(s): Farm Life IN AN OLD APPLE ORCHARD, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind's an old man Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN AN OLD APPLE ORCHARD, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind's an old man Last Line: You can see him %still rolling about in his sleep Subject(s): Farm Life IN CLOVER, by ELISABETH G. PALMER Poem Source First Line: This hot day I lie in the grass Subject(s): Farm Life IN DECEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is no terror sharp as the start Last Line: Nothing but splendor in that bright tree Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN HELICON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In helicon, in helicon Last Line: Beware! Beware! Beware! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN MEMORIAM, by DOROTHY WARDELL BOICE Poem Source First Line: You would have loved this day, could you Subject(s): Farm Life IN NEW YORK, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: What shall I do in the city Subject(s): Farm Life IN PERU, THE QUECHANS HAVE A THOUSAND WORDS FOR POTATO, by G. C. WALDREP Poem Source First Line: I hold my cut finger to the ice water Last Line: Before climbing up the mountain Subject(s): Farm Life IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: At last I stood in wonder Last Line: He could not read the tablet either Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN THE CORNERS OF FIELDS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Something is calling to me Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN THE CORNERS OF FIELDS, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something is calling to me Last Line: So sure of its life %that it peacefully opens its wings Subject(s): Farm Life IN THE FARMHOUSE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eaves moan, / clapboards flap Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN THE FARMHOUSE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eaves moan, %clapboards flap Last Line: Rattling on the twelve lights of blackness Subject(s): Farm Life IN THE HEART OF EUROPE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farmers hereabouts, for generations now Last Line: Like love's delicacy or its quiet assurance Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Europe; Farm Life; Landlords And Tenants; Property IN THE ORCHARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The orchard shade invites you to its depths Last Line: Purple of grape and honey - colored pear! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN THE PASTURE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What am I supposed to put now Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN THE PASTURE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What am I supposed to put now Last Line: Down his wide throat Subject(s): Farm Life IN THE UPPER PASTURE, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the evergreen grove that abuts the pasture we are Last Line: Pitch-streaked and pleasured by this small thing we have done Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Farm Life IN TIME OF DROUGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Thirsty earth Last Line: Roots stretch Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life IN WILD PLACES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Beauty always grows in wild, untended places Last Line: All you need for harvesting is a seeing heart Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life INFERNAL SONET, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Which would provoke more joy Last Line: Of stuffing than your ass Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality INJURY, by SUNSHINE GLENSTONE Poem Source First Line: My memory of my father is that he sat in the parlor Last Line: I suppose we were all happier in summer Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Memory; Pain INLAND SEA-SHELL, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY Poem Text First Line: Flushed with the heat of endless homely chores Last Line: The laborer to the feast his harvest yields. Subject(s): Farm Life; Shells; Agriculture; Farmers; Conchology INSOMNIA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Out of the dark they come Last Line: I beg them to let me sleep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life INTENT ON GATHERING WOOL FROM HEDGE AND BRAKE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And faith--these only yield secure relief Subject(s): Farm Life; Children INTERLUDE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Today there is no noisy flight of wind or birds Last Line: Crumpling pale hepaticas in each chubby fist Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life INVASION ON THE FARM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am pryterch. Forgive me. I don't know Last Line: The parched gate %you left open will never be shut again Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life IOWA FARMER, by MARGARET ABIGAIL WALKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I talked to a farmer one day in iowa Last Line: I could remember more familiar sights Alternate Author Name(s): Walker, Margaret+(1) Subject(s): Farm Life; Iowa IRA AND KATE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: In spring I've seen him wiht a sowing bag Subject(s): Farm Life IRISH PROBLEM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: He sings a verse Last Line: Only the plough complains Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality JASPER LAKE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Perched on a granite peak Last Line: As its mountain heads for the sea Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality JE ME SOUVIENS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The laurentian bar %at chateau frontenac Last Line: To the siege of quebec. %je me souviens Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality JIM, by MARY LYNCH SWANDER Poem Source First Line: The road winds over hills Last Line: Then an explosion of wings %flies up in front of your face Subject(s): Farm Life JOAN OF ARC, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Joan of arc spoke to me Last Line: To make me feel the flames Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JOHN CHAPMAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The apple gospel that he preached Last Line: They called him johnny appleseed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JONATHAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There was a small boy in a jonathan tree Last Line: The smell of the apple, tangy and crisp Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JULY 2ND, 1916. BRITISH ATTACK ON THE SOMME, by PHOEBE HESKETH Poem Source First Line: Six o'clock reveille: scramblers farm Last Line: Shielded by trees to he river Subject(s): Farm Life JUNE, by BETTY ALICE ERHARD Poem Source First Line: June comes tripping over the meadows Subject(s): Farm Life JUNE 21 1990, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I wish I were in kotzebue Last Line: Forget the waiting permafrost Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life JUNE BUGS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: June bugs careen %night after night Last Line: For warmth and light %they too expire Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality JUST IN CASE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Letters have upper and lower case Last Line: Can he solve the case of 'case'? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life KEGLEY'S FARM, WYTHE COUNTY, VIRGINIA, by ROBERT A. AYRES Poem Source First Line: Sunday, december 31 Last Line: Will you feel your toes numb in your boots %when you drive the pitted road to town? Subject(s): Farm Life; Virginia (state) KELLY'S LAMENT, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I fear for my spring wheat Last Line: Surely the wheat will fail Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality KICKING THE LEAVES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each fall in new hampshire, on the farm Last Line: Three of us sitting together, silent, in gray november Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers KILLING THE ROOSTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The pullets were sleek and the cockerels Last Line: It is not easy to become a man Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life KNOWING THE WORST, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning john, the granger, looked Last Line: Surprise you with a chortle when you're looking for a groan. Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Fields; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas LA FOU ANGLAISE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Shakespeare misleads us in his parting scene Last Line: Mightn't have troubled his great-grandson's dreams Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LA LANGUE DES TROUBADOURS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Benvengut,' says a sign Last Line: Here they are heard no more. %adieu, adieu provence Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality; Provence, France LA'A KEA FARM, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Around the certainty of jungle Last Line: Perfect for the picking Subject(s): Farm Life LABOR IS NEITHER BLOSSOMING NOR DANCING, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: While I am laboring, he is at work Subject(s): Farm Life LABOUR, by VICTORIA MARY SACKVILLE-WEST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And since to live men labour, only knowing Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Harold, Mrs.; Sackville-west, Vita Subject(s): Farm Life LABOURER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There he goes, tacking against the fields' Last Line: No, no, a man like you, but blind with tears %of sweat to the bright star that draws on you Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life LAMENT FOR TALL SHIPS, by ROBERT L. MILLER Poem Source First Line: Tall ships! Tall ships! Subject(s): Farm Life LAND MINE TREATY, by KRISTIN BERKEY-ABBOTT Poem Source First Line: I'd like to have a baby Last Line: No one who will risk that %explosion Subject(s): Farm Life LAND OF DROUGHT, by MAXAMED CABDILLE XASAN Poem Source First Line: All these were mine Last Line: A place where teeth will find no food to chew Subject(s): Farm Life LANDSCAPE IN SPRING, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a pickup my brother and me Last Line: Work in dust, get up in dust. Beer makes it go Subject(s): Farm Life LARABELLE; CANTO FIRST, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a wide and far extended plain Last Line: Of johny green and charming larabelle. Subject(s): Farm Life; Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers LAST CRICKET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The cricket that survives the early frost Last Line: Beneath her dark inevitable wings Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LAST HARVEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is the last sweet harvest of the year Last Line: The gray sky thickens and I feel the threat of snow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LAST NIGHT, by MILDRED ANN HOBBS Poem Source First Line: When in the dark last night, against the Subject(s): Farm Life LATE, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those perishing gentians splashed by moonlight and wind Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers LATE SNOW STORM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This storm that steps upon the heels of spring Last Line: Earth stirs and stretches from her winter bed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LATE WINTER SNOW, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: These small sierras sawing at the sky Last Line: Let's hope spring cleaning comes when spring %commences! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LAUGHTER WILL RISE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Some things endure. Be comforted Last Line: Some things endure Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LAY OF THE CID: DAWN IN THE TOWN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And now the dawn was breaking and morning coming on Last Line: And but a little remnant were left in castejon Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor And Laborers; Towns LAYS THAT PLEASE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In other days the poet's lays Last Line: Are those that grow in henneries. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers LEAN YEAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Thanks be for small and sour fruit Last Line: All creatures will be met Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LEGACY, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Though I am gone form here Subject(s): Farm Life LEONARDO, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Whether for love of flight or liberty Last Line: He bought caged birds only to set them free Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LEOPARD LIVES IN A MUU TREE, by JONATHAN KARIARA Poem Source Last Line: Resuscitating himself Subject(s): Farm Life; Leopards LET US GATHER IN A FLOURISHING WAY, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: En las manos de nuestro amor Subject(s): Farm Life; Social Commentary; Relationships LETTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have sold the stars haver and charles scratched Last Line: Inside and out of the empty echoing house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LETTER FROM FLORIDA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is lotus land, ripe with the fruits of summer Last Line: Stone walls Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LETTER TO A.D. HOPE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Sir, pardon this unheralded address Last Line: I am your servant and disciple Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LETTER TO AN IMAGINARY FRIEND: 4, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My father took me as far as he could that summer Last Line: A good teacher, a brother Subject(s): Farm Life LETTER TO AN IMAGINARY FRIEND: 5, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That was the year, too, of the labor troubles on the rigs Last Line: And cut for home across a the river quarter Subject(s): Farm Life LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs Last Line: Reckon on the sagging corn-fed flanks Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel LIBERATION, by WINIFRED GRAY STEWART Poem Text First Line: At midnight came a cool wind from the west, after days Last Line: The shadow of death has passed; now I can plant new seed in a living womb. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women; Agriculture; Farmers LIKE DE OLE MULE BES', by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks is so't o' pa'shal to de cattle roun' de Last Line: I so't o' like de ole mule bes'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Chickens; Cows; Dogs; Farm Life; Goats; Love; Agriculture; Farmers LIMITS OF EMPIRE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Not for trajan the fabled khyber pass Last Line: Collapsed at the euphrates' mouth and wept Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LINES UPON HEARING A POLITICAL CONVENTION, by ALICE FAWLEY Poem Source First Line: Vain, boasting voices, empty as the autumn Subject(s): Farm Life; Political Campaigns LINES WRITTEN IN THE DOG-DAYS; HOW HOT IT IS!, by WILLIAM WOTY Poem Text First Line: The sun now darts his fervid rays Last Line: How charming now, and cool it is! Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Oppression; Sun; Thirst; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers LITANY FOR SPARROW LYING IN THE PATH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No special services for you, bird Last Line: Did he turn his head? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LITHUANIAN WELL, by JOHANNES BOBROWSKI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My paths out of sand, the heavens Last Line: Sing your mouth pale Subject(s): Farm Life LITTLE DAUGHTER, WASHING DISHES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Little daughter, washing dishes Last Line: Set no place for despair Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LITTLE PATHS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You come upon them unexpectedly Last Line: And follow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LITTLE TOWNS AT DUSK, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: The cottage lamps are gleaming Subject(s): Dusk; Farm Life LIVING AMONG TREES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Is different every day Last Line: In the bed by the door Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LOADING A BOAR, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were loading a boar, a goddamn mean big sonofabitch Last Line: Writing and found out john he was right. Subject(s): Farm Life; Pigs; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs LOADING FEED IN THE GARAGE PARKING LOT, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Bright sunlight on the grange parking lot Last Line: He would be right here at the grange again, this instant, no Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Horses; Labor And Laborers LOCAL BOY MISSING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He was not ready for the gift of sleep Last Line: And little winds whisper your requiem Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LONELY FARMER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor hill farmer astray in the grass Last Line: His ear betrayed by the heart's need Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life LONELY ONE I BE, by RONALD JUMBO Poem Source Last Line: I am waiting for a new beginning each day. %I am the lonely one Subject(s): Farm Life LONESOME PEAK, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I bed down by a man Last Line: Courses through his veins Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LONGIN' FUR TENNESSEE (A LAMENT FROM YANKEE LAND), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, I'm longin' jes'er longin' fur a sight ob / tennessee Last Line: Fur er grabe in tennessee. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homesickness; Plantation Life; Sheep; Slavery; Tennessee; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs LOST CAUSES: 1. BETTING THE RANCH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: He could have sold his pregnant cows last fall Last Line: Before a blizzard and a margin call Variant Title(s): Betting The Ranc Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality LOST EDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Only the snake can take me there again Last Line: And innocence and the small snake were gone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LOVE IN OCTOBER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fields, the clouds, the farms and farming Last Line: These many loves would founder in that night. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Love; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers LOVE MADE VISIBLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Love shows itself in homely ways Last Line: Children tucked in their beds at night Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life LUNDU, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight, if I sleep on this bank Subject(s): Farm Life; Rivers; Sugar; Agriculture; Farmers MAD FARMER REVOLUTION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad farmer, the thirsty one Last Line: With farmers and their brides sowing %and reaping. When they died %they became two spirits of the wo Subject(s): Christianity; Farm Life; Religion MAD FARMER SHUTS HIMSELF INSIDE SILO TO SING AWAY STORM, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: Because the silo is round %each note is round Last Line: And the harvest behold! Is in Subject(s): Farm Life MAD FARMER'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My father he left me three acres of land Last Line: And reaped it with my little penknife, %sing holly, go whistle, and ivy! Subject(s): Farm Life MAGIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We passed old farmer boothby in the field Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Maine (state); Farm Life; Boats; Landscape; Agriculture; Farmers MAGIC IN LITCHFIELD (DAIRY FARM), by PEARL LEITA PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: This hour the day slopes into dusk, as sky Last Line: The land that knows again new england calm. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers MAIZE IN NORWAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By an inn of wildest norway Last Line: As that cluster of waving corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Americans; Corn; Farm Life; Norway; Agriculture; Farmers MAKING ALLOWANCES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Bill eats our food and shares our roof Last Line: But with a common currency! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAKING APPLE BUTTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Cinnamon and cider and crisp northern spies Last Line: But winter isn't here till we've made the apple butter Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAKING BREAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My sisters watch me as I shape the loaf and Last Line: I feel my sisters watching, sharing, knowing Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAKING FODDER, by LINDA BROCKMAN Poem Source First Line: Near the house at the top of the hill I stopped Last Line: To mark the place I'm going this time, if I'm right Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Travel MAKING SOAP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last thursday, down by slipshod hill Last Line: To make and own a tub of soap. Subject(s): Farm Life; Food & Eating; Mountain Life - Vermont; Soup; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers MALE IMAGE, by TED SOLOTAROFF Poem Source First Line: I watch for my uncles to come in from the fields Last Line: It's what men say when they are strong and happy %because they have something hard to do Subject(s): Farm Life MAN WHO BUYS HIDES, by DENNIS SCHMITZ Poem Source First Line: Before I had a face Last Line: Over, counter to the earth Subject(s): Farm Life MAN WITH AN AXE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He hefts the axe and the axe hangs true Last Line: And built a house with his axe and his dreams Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MAP, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hill, a farm, / a forest, and a valley. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MAPLE DAYS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON (20TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: Though nights be cold, yet soon on sunny Last Line: Old mother maple vivid patchwork lays. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MAPLE SYRUP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August, goldenrod blowing. We walk Subject(s): Farm Life; Graves; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones MAPLE SYRUP, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August, goldenrod blowing. We walk Last Line: The sweetness preserved, of a dead man %in his own kitchen, %giving us %from his lost grave the gift Subject(s): Farm Life; Graves MAPLES IN WINTER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Maples in winter have a listening look Last Line: With miracle of leaf Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MARCH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I think that march is just a little boy Last Line: He goes to sleep upon the lap of spring Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MARSHALL WASHER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cowshit farmers, these new englanders Last Line: "and flagged aisles saturated with a century’s Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; New England; Agriculture; Farmers MARTINIQUE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: C'est un jour %de malheur Last Line: Et une langue %etrangere Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality MASTER OF NONE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plastic safety card Subject(s): Air Travel; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MEMO TO THEOGNIS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: No man is happy Last Line: And dogs die young Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality MEMO: FOR A BEDSIDE READING TABLE, SCRIBBLED AT 2. A.M., by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Let others read to shudder and weep Last Line: Why did I start on a book like that? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MEMORIAL DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Do not sing blues here in this place Last Line: Flowers and tears should never last Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MEMORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton rows crisscross the world Last Line: And all my days are dying Subject(s): Farm Life MEMORY, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Spinning up dust and Subject(s): Memory; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MENDING BRUSH FENCE IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the spring the cattle moo Last Line: Of that old fence. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers MID-SUMMER MORNING RUN, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: The blue spruce all lean Last Line: Holding their tongues Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields MIDNIGHT AT THE FARM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A distant sheep-dog barks: beyond the bank Last Line: Flung him, that gave and took, her blasphemies. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers MILKIN', by P. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: It was a sunburned farmer who was leaning on a plough Last Line: "'well, I told 'im there'd be milkin',' he remarked, and seized his plough" Alternate Author Name(s): P. Subject(s): Farm Life;labor & Laborers; Agriculture;farmers MILKING THE COW, by MATTHEW LIPPMAN Poem Source First Line: I've been reading the paper all morning and can't get my eyes of the barn Last Line: As it races over the brown wheat grass to meet me head on %between the pink udders of one brown cow Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; News; Storms; Winter MILKWEED PODS IN NOVEMBER, by JEFF MANN Poem Source First Line: Across those shiver-seas %of pasture, we are boats Last Line: What peace to be so empty Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields MINDEN HOUSE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twer when the vo'k wer out to hawl Last Line: There's now noo mwore a fanny deäne. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housekeeping; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MISERY IS THE YEAST -, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The ferment Last Line: I lack the proper background Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MISSISSIPPI MYSTERIES, CONTINUED, by ALBERT JAMES YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Papa wasn't no fool, but neither was that farm Last Line: That hellacious month of jubilant weather nights Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Al Subject(s): Farm Life MISTER COBB'S SOLUTION, by NEAL KIRCHNER Poem Source First Line: The lush green foliage he hacks back Last Line: He sees me now, at the driveway's mouth, %and he guns that fartbag truck! Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Farm Life; Food And Eating; Tea MODERN SONNET, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: You smiled and I was interested Subject(s): Farm Life MONTANA, by SYLVIA M. HAIGHT Poem Source First Line: Land of the friendly handclasp Subject(s): Farm Life MONTEGO BOY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: His limbs were lean as mangrove roots Last Line: Between the reefs and land Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality MOOD INDIGO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From the porch; from the hayrick where her prickled Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Farm Life; Longing; Agriculture; Farmers MOOD INDIGO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the porch; from the hayrick where her prickled Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Farm Life; Longing MOOFER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I remember skin the color of tea %wrapped his large-boned body. He wore Last Line: Such self-satisfied %little universes, %such lost children, %such americans Subject(s): Farm Life; Immigrants; Old Age; Prairies MORNING EXERCISES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have no child or cat or bird Last Line: Insists on being walked Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MORNING ON THE FARM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Get up, my lad! The sun is rising, it is a Last Line: Shoulder blades! Subject(s): Farm Life; Morning; Mothers & Sons; Youth; Agriculture; Farmers MORNING SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun on his face wakes him Last Line: Pierce a magician's box. Subject(s): Boys; Deer; Farm Life; Morning; Agriculture; Farmers MORTGAGE ON THE FARM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Tis gone at last, and I am glad Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortgages MOTHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Somehow I just can't think of you Last Line: And knows that heaven's richer for the sound Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MOTHER'S DAY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Mothers gathered from miles around %when the mare foaled on mother's day Last Line: He whinnied as if to clear his throat: %'excuse me. I am a little horse' Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality MOUNTAIN FARM, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the agony of a mountain farm Last Line: All the night through an open and empty door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MOUNTAIN WOMEN, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: Some things have shone too gloriously Variant Title(s): Evidenc Subject(s): Farm Life MOVING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Andrew and juliana moved seven times Last Line: To a florida flower bed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MOVING HOUSE, NO. 2, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In spring and fall there are many fine days Last Line: A man should provide his own food and clothing; %while I work the fields I am not false to myself Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Farm Life MR. HAMMOND'S PARABLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a dreamer of the days Last Line: "he's studied out a patent churn!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fables; Farm Life; Nightmares; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers MUD, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You would think that the little birches Last Line: And as the dark gruel thickens, %life will stick up a finger Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Farm Life MUDDY ROAD TO ADAM JOHNSON'S HOUSE. AFTER ANDREW WYETH, by JOHN BURNSIDE Poem Source First Line: It's this knowing the land by the names Last Line: In the first chill of winter Subject(s): Farm Life MULLINS FARM, by RICHARD H. W. DILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun through the window Last Line: And the corn stalks crack in the air Alternate Author Name(s): Dillard, R. H. W. Subject(s): Farm Life MUSIC OF THE EARTH, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Tom was a fiddlin' farmer Subject(s): Farm Life MUSTARD GREENS, by MARGARET RABB Poem Source First Line: Before I-40 I pass the minnis back pasture Last Line: Driving the lush surface, how fast it will flip to its opposite Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Farm Life; Roads MUSTARD SEED GARDEN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Distant, the tumults of a passing age Last Line: The sage and I stand spellbound, listening Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality MY FARM: A FABLE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a green and pleasant land Last Line: Do thou the same, my wiser brother! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fables; Farm Life; Nature; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers MY FATHER WAS A FARMER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a farmer upon the carrick border, o Last Line: A cheerful honest-hearted clown I will prefer before you, o. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MY FATHER'S GHOST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My father's ghost would never hang around the house Last Line: Come to me in living, my whole life long! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MY GRANDMOTHER WASHES HER FEET, by FRED CHAPPELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see her still, unsteadily riding the edge Last Line: I never had the guts to stir that earth Subject(s): Farm Life; Feet; Grandparents MY HEART UNFOLDS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My heart unfolds with every leaf Last Line: My heart unfolds with every leaf Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MY MOTHER'S PEARS, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plump, green-gold, worcester's pride Last Line: Dig the hole deeper Subject(s): Farm Life MY NEIGHBOR, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: The girl who lives next to us Last Line: Like an animal Subject(s): Courtship; Farm Life; Neighbors MY OWN LAND, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: I have come back at last to my own land Subject(s): Farm Life MY POEMS, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: They come when I am churning Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry And Poets MY RESTING PLACE IS IN THE DEEP WOODS NOW, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Wild ducks drifting on the waves as far as the eye can see Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Farm Life; Zen Buddhism MY SABINE FARM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: My sabine farm, or, sooth to speak Last Line: My sabine farm! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MY SOUTH: 3. ON THE FARM, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I, missing the city intensely at that moment Subject(s): Farm Life; Southern States; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.) MY SOUTH: 3. ON THE FARM, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I, missing the city intensely at that moment Last Line: Protected by a cloud let down by the gods to save him Subject(s): Farm Life; Southern States MYRRH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Christmas is laughter, tinsel, light Last Line: A dream of peace we follow still Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life MYSTERY OF CHRISTMAS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The mystery of christmas fills the house Last Line: It's built upon a birthday and a dream Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NAMES OF HORSES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers NAMES OF HORSES, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding Last Line: O roger, mackerel, riley, ned, nellie, chester, lady ghost Subject(s): Farm Life; Love NEAR EARTH REARS THEM, by H. L. WHITCHER Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life NEAR THE BRAVO 20 BOMBING RANGE, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: I bring the mare a green apple & then we ride Last Line: From the still water Subject(s): Farm Life NEBRASKA, EARLY MARCH, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: The sun one hour from setting Last Line: Under my wildest touch each %indivisible strand Subject(s): Farm Life NEIGHBORS IN OCTOBER, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon his tractor pulls a wagon Last Line: Bagging gold for the cold days to come Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NEIGHBORS IN OCTOBER, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon his tractor pulls a wagon Last Line: Bagging gold for the cold days to come Subject(s): Farm Life NEVER A GRAVE CAN HOLD ME, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: There is never a grave can hold me Subject(s): Farm Life NEW HAMPSHIRE, by ROBERT (2) FISHER Poem Source First Line: A touch and taste of all that's naive and Subject(s): Farm Life NEW YEAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Past slanting pastures new with snow Last Line: Can make it last! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NEXT YEAR, LOCUSTS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Plough the stubble. Set the drawbar deep Last Line: And the first cutworm chews a tender root Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality NIGHT CHILD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The night child lifts himself from sleep Last Line: Dark safely wraps the night - struck child Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NIGHT FALLS ON THE BRIDGE, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sand, sand, sand Last Line: South dakota, nebraska. Subject(s): Farm Life; South Dakota; Agriculture; Farmers NO CEREMONY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Being forgotten is another kind of dying Last Line: No mourners left Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO CROWN, LORD, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life NO GLACIER PUSHED ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I sat down near a quartz - filled pudding stone Last Line: At rest upon this catskill hilltop farm? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO SILVER SWATH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This snail shell is an empty hall Last Line: I mark my kinship with the snail Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO STONE TO HEFT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The black earth welcomes the exploding seed Last Line: Today I have no stone to heft and tote Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO STRANGE FLOWERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Tottering a little on unsteady feet Last Line: In normandy Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NO WORDS ARE BORN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Beyond the parapets of outer space Last Line: Lucid enough to tell the tale to me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NORTHBOUND CROWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I know it is spring when I hear them talk Last Line: The flight to the north is cluttered and loud Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NORTHERN FARMER, NEW STYLE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaawy? Last Line: Proputty, proputty, proputty -- canter an' canter awaay. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Cynicism; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NORTHERN FARMER, OLD STYLE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wheer 'asta bean saw long and mea liggin' 'ere aloan? Last Line: Git ma my aale, I tell tha, an' if I mun doy I mun doy. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NOTE TO BE SEALED IN A BOTTLE:, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am a star - flung castaway Last Line: And offer me the great voyage home Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NOTHING GOES TO WASTE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Rearing on spindly legs Last Line: Nothing goes to waste Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality NOVEMBER, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: The sun sets on a day of peace and labor Last Line: I see a human fire burning Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Nature; November NOVEMBER CALF, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She calved in the ravine, beside Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NOVEMBER CALF, by JANE KENYON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She calved in the ravine, beside Last Line: A frayed and knotted scrap of rope Subject(s): Farm Life NOVEMBER DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This tattered day is a hand - me - down Last Line: As winter sweeps in with ermine and pearls! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life NOW THE SLOW DAWN, by BELLE TURNBULL Poem Text First Line: Now the slow dawn relentless along the prairie Last Line: Go out to the north mowing. Surely the dream will keep. Subject(s): Dawn; Farm Life; Sunrise; Agriculture; Farmers O-H-H-HM HE FIDDLED WITH HIS HOE AND HE, by WILLIAM HELMER Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life OASIS, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: The late rains that have advanced everything so wonderfully Subject(s): Farm Life OATS OF WRATH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: You want cash in a trust?' Last Line: Hair laid flat by the gust, %a boy waits out the storm Subject(s): Child Molesting; Farm Life; Homosexuality; Parents OCTOBER AGAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: October again Last Line: Is harder to bear Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OCTOBER RICHES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I love the helterskelter untidiness of leaves Last Line: I am a gold leaf millionaire Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ODE FOR AN AGRICULTURAL CELEBRATION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far back in the ages Last Line: And feeds the expectant nations. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers OF ALL GOOD MEDICINES I LABEL BEST, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life OIL BURN, by ADAM BURHANS Poem Source First Line: When father told me to dump the oil Last Line: Or rivers turning back for bewginnings, %escaping its pull to live again Subject(s): Farm Life; Petroleum; Pollution OLD CANADA; OR, GEE BUCK GEE, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country's goin' fast to ruin! Last Line: Ain't it a caution?—gee buck gee! Subject(s): Canada; Education; Farm Life; Progress; Canadians; Agriculture; Farmers OLD FARM ALONG NEW HIGHWAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A roadside barn stands shivering Last Line: Watches with empty eyes Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This old house wears a patina of dignity Last Line: And will again. This old house is a home Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD HOUSE AT CHRISTMAS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Christmas comes easily to this old house Last Line: With all the love its wooden arms can hold! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD MAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: His spindly legs and arms still work Last Line: And waits to join him when he comes Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD ORCHARD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A drift of baldwins, bright as maple leaves Last Line: For fruit and flower he shall never see? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD RED HEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In her good brown dress and bright red comb Last Line: Is her last little feathery goodnight word Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OLD VINEYARD, by LEONARDO SINISGALLI Poem Source First Line: I've been sitting on the ground Last Line: I savor the air coming from the heart of the trees Subject(s): Farm Life; Vines And Vineyards OLD WINTERS ON THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have jest about decided Last Line: "groun'-hog's out and seed his shadder!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; February; Groundhogs; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodchucks OLD-FASHIONED VERMONT FLOWERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like vermont's old-fashioned flowers Last Line: To bloom around our woodhouse door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers ON A 'FARMER'S ARM'S' PITCHER, LIVERPOOL WARE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Let mighty and great Last Line: Here's to god bless the plow, %long life and content to the farmer Subject(s): Farm Life ON BUYING A MAINE FARM, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house should be white Last Line: To swing overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Maine (state); Agriculture; Farmers ON FINDING AN ARROWHEAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Who left this mark upon my measured field? Last Line: And wonder if I really own this land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ON LONG BOAT KEY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This key rides water like a narrow raft Last Line: Others will follow whose days have just begun Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ON LOOKING AT A CONTOUR MAP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Under the light the map begins to live Last Line: To childhood country with my youth restored Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ON MEETING FATHER GOOSE, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray old man, / as webbed as moss, Last Line: "you gol dern fool!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers ON STUDYING SEATED MAN WITH A HARP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: All the singing before homer is lost Last Line: I try to hear Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ON THE FARM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There was dai puw. He was no good Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ON THE FARM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was dai puw. He was no good Last Line: By which they read in god's dark book %the shrill sentence: god is love Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life ON THE SALE OF MY FARM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well-away and be it so Last Line: Seeking ache of memory here. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ON THUNDER HILL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The folks who live on thunder hill Last Line: Lightning can't strike the same place twice! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ONCE WE WERE FARMERS, by ELSA REDIVA E'DER Poem Source Last Line: We sing with eloquent hunger Subject(s): Farm Life ONE SONG, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: Is there no song that I may sing? Subject(s): Farm Life ONE THAT GOT AWAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It is of you I dream through drowsy winter nights Last Line: Come streaking from its depths to fin your nose at me! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ONE-YEAR-OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He laughs and claps those dimpled hands Last Line: Came here to stay! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ONION, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The onion, now that's something else Last Line: Not for us such idiotic %onionoid perfections Subject(s): Farm Life OPEN HOUSE, by H. L. WHITCHER Poem Source First Line: My door stands wide in the sun and rain Subject(s): Farm Life ORACLE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Now I am the old one, dispensing wisdom Last Line: I forget ... I forget ... I try to forget Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life ORCHARD, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: We go into it at night Last Line: Tonight so many of them fall Subject(s): Farm Life; Orchards; Ranch Life; Women - Writers ORCHARD IN BLOOM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: These seven hundred trees Last Line: The vernal believer %need never decipher Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality ORCHARD KEEPER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow has fallen on snow for two days behind the keilen farmhouse Last Line: And the orchard keeper, where is he? Variant Title(s): Snow Falling On Sno Subject(s): Farm Life ORNAMENT, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: The children chased tumbleweeds Last Line: Through sage across the white flats Subject(s): Farm Life ORPHAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Milk - white with nacre hooves and horn Last Line: To see the last white unicorn Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OUR GRIEF WILL PASS WHEN SHADOWS THROW, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life OUR HERITAGE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This is our due and this our heritage Last Line: We cannot spare one bird song from the field! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OUR LOSSES HAVE BEEN SLIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No one will miss him very much Last Line: No one will miss him very much Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OUR OLD VERMONT LUMBER WAGON, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thing that often 'pears to me Last Line: Our old blue lumber wagon. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Woodsmen OUT A-NUTTEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week, when we'd a-haul'd the crops Last Line: Vrom copse a-nuttèn. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Nuts & Nutting; Seasons; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers OUT OF THE FIREFLY NIGHT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Soft and dark after the warm rain Last Line: I grew all night like the new corn in the hills Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life OX-CART MAN, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In october of the year, Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PACKET OF SEED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This wrinkled seed I hold in my hand Last Line: By the soundless shout of the bursting seed! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PADDING IT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hasing it out like niggers on a two and a / tanner sub Last Line: The journey to ballachulish, for this is the song of it. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Slavery; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Serfs; Journeys; Trips PADDLER AND DABBLER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: You were the white swan Last Line: By trumpeting your song Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PAIR OF SHOES BY THE FIELD'S EDGE, by WANG XIAONI Poem Source First Line: By the field's edge Last Line: Bare feet trudging on earth, the color of antinque bronze Subject(s): Farm Life PALOUSE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chaff hovers like pollen Last Line: Spattered with stars. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PARTINGS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: With house and home went title to the tree Last Line: That went into the growing of the tree Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PARTY LINE, by JEAN STANSBURY Poem Source First Line: Hello, central! Four-o-four Subject(s): Farm Life PASSEL O' PUPS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Bonny bairnies, black an' fine Last Line: Drifts the snaw. Drink yir fill, %glazie beasties, souk an' slepe Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PASSING AN ORCHARD BY TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grass high under apple trees Last Line: To forgive me Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PASSING AN ORCHARD BY TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grass high under apple trees Last Line: I want to tell him %that I forgive him, that I want him %to forgive me Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Farm Life PAST-LIVES THERAPY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They explained to me the bloody bandages Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; War; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery PASTORAL, by ANNIE DILLARD Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sometimes when a peasant moves with the plough and the oxen Last Line: From the backs of the animals on to the fields Subject(s): Farm Life PASTORAL, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They say it was an absence of cows Last Line: On which we put everything down? %who'll off to market, singing cows, cows? Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Farm Life PASTORAL: 2, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yon upland slope which hides the sun Last Line: Men's thoughts must borrow rather than bestow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Persephone; Agriculture; Farmers; Proserpine; Proserpina PATH MISTAKEN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: In a leafless wood I lose my way Last Line: But credit me with this tract of trees Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PATTERN FOR THE FUTURE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I see a neat and tidy world Last Line: With choice phased out, and love outlawed Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PAUL AMONG THE CORINTHIANS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: City where mighty eros reigns Last Line: To placate the offended god of love Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PEA BRUSH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked down alone sunday after church Last Line: And since it was coming up had to come. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PEACHES, by JANE BROX Poem Source First Line: The handful of varieties that grow in this part of the country have Last Line: Peaches, their fragrance blooms at the back of your throat as it passes Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Peaches PEARS, by MARY LYNCH SWANDER Poem Source First Line: Dipping each nail Last Line: Of their own stems Subject(s): Farm Life PEELING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There was no song for that brown chore Last Line: It seemed a privilege for a while Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PEG-LEG PIG, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A farmer's daughter keeps a hog %who sports a wooden leg Last Line: Mister, you eat a pig this good %one leg at a time' Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PEOPLE FROM THE VALLEY, by KEITH WILSON Poem Source First Line: The farmers come, come Last Line: Who can write their own obituaries %in the lines of their hard hands Subject(s): Farm Life; Ranch Life PERSPECTIVE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When I had lost myself in woe Last Line: My grief was an important thing Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PHILOSOPHER-KING, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Why is that gallant Last Line: Put him in the infantry!' Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PICKEN O' SCROFF, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The wood wer a-vell'd in the copse Last Line: The poor childern a-pickèn o' scroff. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers PICKERS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day we were bent over, Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PICKING APPLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up there, boys, no time to dream Last Line: "we plumb forgot to salt the sheep." Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PICKING GRAPES IN AN ABANDONED VINEYARD, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picking grapes in the late autumn sun Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PICKING GRAPES IN AN ABANDONED VINEYARD, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picking grapes in the late autumn sun Last Line: Carry the grapes up into the solemn house, %where I was born Subject(s): Farm Life PICKING WILD BLACKBERRIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No one but a bear should pick wild blackberries Last Line: He shambled off in lumbering retreat Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PITCHFORK, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all implements, the pitchfork was the one Last Line: Not in the aiming but the opening hand Subject(s): Farm Life PITCHING HAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's opposites, go where you will Last Line: Of pitching off and on. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers PITYING THE FARMER, by LI SHEN Poem Source First Line: He hoes the grain under a midday sun Last Line: Who realizes that the food in the food bowl, %every last morsel of it, is bought with such toil? Subject(s): Farm Life PLACE FOR A BOY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A field is a place for a small boy to play Last Line: A field is a place for a small boy to grow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PLACE IN KANSAS, by TED KOOSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in kansas, a friend found Last Line: It's like that in kansas, forever Subject(s): Farm Life PLACE IS DEAR TO ME WHEREON MY FATHER, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life PLAGUES, by CLAUDIA EMERSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A rain crow lusts in the hot, waxy pines Last Line: Keeping us, as if we could be let go Subject(s): Farm Life; Plague PLANTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I learnt soon after I was born Last Line: "no crows are working johnson's corn." Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers PLANTING OF THE BLUE CORN, by EDGAR SILEX Poem Source First Line: After the fields are planted Last Line: And the blue corn shoots %begin to grow Subject(s): Farm Life PLANTING PURPLE POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not with prayers and incantations Last Line: This is my journey to peru Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PLATONIST, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: An ex-priest in the park Last Line: Drink deeply in the dark Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PLATT RIVER HOLDOUT, by KATY PEAKE Poem Source First Line: Where last month tasseled ranks of corn linked Last Line: To watch the crumbling furrows fill with dust behind him Subject(s): Farm Life PLAYGROUND INCIDENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The eagle soared above the playground with Last Line: Great wings were there Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PLOUGH AND A SPADE, by NGUYEN TRAI Poem Source First Line: A plough and a spade, that's all Last Line: I need no praise, I am deaf to laughter Subject(s): Farm Life PLOUGHMAN, by JOHN TRIPP Poem Source First Line: You may not get a chance Last Line: Before his plough went to a museum Subject(s): Farm Life PLOWING, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Crawling steady at a slight slant Last Line: Of straight black lines across a flat field Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Plowing And Plowmen; Tractors PLOWMAN, by JAMES CHRASTA Poem Source First Line: The frost bit deeper Subject(s): Farm Life POEM, by MARY FERRELL DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: My father could not make a poem Last Line: He made a poem in living green. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers POEM FOR NOAM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: What grammars we contrive Last Line: Of either life or love Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality POEM TO ELIADES OCHOA AND CUARTETO PATRIA’S RENDITION OF “SALUDO COMPAY”, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oxen cart driven to the sugar cane fields Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers POET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The poet doesn't live on love or roses Last Line: Green words will always ripen in his mouth Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life POLLY CORTELYOU, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty polly cortelyou, / mistress of the ...' Last Line: Woo the farmer lasses! Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers POOR OLD WOMAN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A spate of sorrow drowned her - Last Line: A spate of sorrow drowned her Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 3. OPPOSITION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four farmers seen through an open window falling asleep Last Line: "that letter fly between her knees."" they are drunk." Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Omens; Reproduction; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Mating POPPIES IN THE WHEAT, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along ancona's hills the shimmering heat Last Line: Lithe poppies ran like torchmen with the wheat. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Variant Title(s): Poppies On The Wheat Subject(s): Farm Life; Poppies; Agriculture; Farmers PORCH SONG, by AGNES FOSTER SALMON Poem Source First Line: I am at peace, the chores all done Subject(s): Farm Life PORTRAIT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He walks along, unnoticing, with spring Last Line: And climb, unmoved, a parapet of stars Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, by BONNIE D. ELKIN Poem Text First Line: Man of the soil, an ageless man Last Line: A farmer's field of grain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Agriculture; Farmers 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 POSTSCRIPT TO A SNOW DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You asked me what on earth I did Last Line: To make a proper list! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: One potato Last Line: Three potato %four! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life POWER, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Power, farmer? It was always yours Last Line: Of empires with a tree's patience, %rooted in the dark soil Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life PRAIRIE EARTH, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Some day I shall return to prairie earth Subject(s): Farm Life PRAIRIE FOLKS: SETTLERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above them soars a dazzling sky Last Line: Behind the snarling plough. Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains PRAIRIE HYMN, by FRANCES V. STEGEMAN Poem Source First Line: O blessed peace that passeth understanding Subject(s): Farm Life PRAIRIE PERSPECTIVE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: In northwestern minnesota, the horizon's a circle Last Line: O'clock siren, at the blank, bald eye of empty sky Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farm Life; Memory; Minnesota; Poetry And Poets; Prairies PRAIRIE PICTURES, by T. W. STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: I cannot sing of mountain peaks capped by eternal snow Last Line: Before the sable angel rings the curtain of the day. Subject(s): Farm Life; Peace; Pictures; Agriculture; Farmers PRAISE BE FOR MUD!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Praise be for mud when the frost goes out Last Line: Praise be for mud! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life PRAYER OF THE HOMESTEADER, by PAULINE LATTIN Poem Source First Line: Oh, gently thou nevada Subject(s): Farm Life PRAYERS AND SAYINGS OF THE MAD FARMER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is presumptuous and irresponsible to pray for other people. A Last Line: Grown immortal in his mind Subject(s): Farm Life; Prayer; Agriculture; Farmers PRAYERS AND SAYINGS OF THE MAD FARMER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is presumptuous and irresponsible to pray for other people. A Last Line: Make the human race a better head. Make the world a better %piece of ground Subject(s): Farm Life PRECEPTS OF GOVERNANCE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Praise and promote the basest men Last Line: And tax them till they weep Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality PRIEST AND FRIEND, by A. F. VAN BIBBER Poem Source First Line: A priest of god, his table you have spread Subject(s): Clergy; Farm Life PRIEST TO HIS PEOPLE, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men of the hills, wantoners, men of wales Last Line: In a crude tapestry under the jealous heavens %to affront, bewilder, yet compel my gaze Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Clergy; Farm Life; Wales PROBABLY THE FARMER, by LAURA LINNEA JENSEN Poem Source First Line: Probably the farmer hid in the valley Last Line: The farmer became a citizen Subject(s): Farm Life PROOF, by VERA WILLIS-REESE Poem Source First Line: Our faith in nature's power is born anew Subject(s): Farm Life PROSPECTOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Nuggets of wisdom, I've been told Last Line: I'm off to the mountains with grubstake and mule Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life QUAIL AND HIS ROLE IN AGRICULTURE, by RAY A. YOUNG BEAR Poem Source First Line: Now it's here Last Line: My grandfathers before me, it continues %to be a transmitter of prayer. %beautiful yellow corn... Subject(s): Farm Life QUALITY OF SPRAWL, by LES A. MURRAY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sprawl is the quality Last Line: And thinks it unlikely. Though people have been shot for sprawl Alternate Author Name(s): Murray, Leslie Allan Subject(s): Farm Life QUARREL, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Climbing in sullen silence past treeline Last Line: Amateurs who never locked horns with you Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality QUARREL OF PAIRS, by GREGORY DJANIKIAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hayfield is harrowed Last Line: What a roundness of words to hold in your hand Subject(s): Farm Life; Neighbors QUART OF MILK WEIGHTS TWO POUNDS, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: My hands have swollen twice their single size Subject(s): Farm Life QUESTION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Spirit, body Last Line: Become of %me? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life QUESTION, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: Could I have been in maryland Subject(s): Farm Life QUIET LITTLE BODY, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: A quiet little body,' they all you, dear ... Subject(s): Farm Life R.F.D. MAILBOX, by S. A. WALSH Poem Source First Line: I was haven Last Line: Sole monument Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It hain't no use to grumble and complane Last Line: W'y, rain's my choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Wet Weather Talk Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Rain; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers RAINBOW OF A DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sunday was a day to savor and remember Last Line: I wonder if we'll see again such a rainbow of a day? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RANCHERS, by MAURICE LESEMANN Poem Source First Line: They went off on the buckboard in the rain Subject(s): Farm Life RAPE OF TIBET, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The I ching summons me to its shelf Last Line: To the immutable law of change Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality RAPUNZEL, RAPUNZEL, by KATE BERTRAND Poem Source First Line: The day we flew %clint's crop duster over the tides Last Line: Unfurled like a flag, claiming %her piece of the prairie Subject(s): Farm Life RAZING THE WOODLOT, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Here stands the grove our tenant plans to fell Last Line: To teach us the temerity of dreams Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality READING IN PLACE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a poem that starts with a couple Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers READING IN PLACE, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a poem that starts with a couple Subject(s): Farm Life READY, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: With wild heart schooled to silence by years Subject(s): Farm Life RECEIPT FOR BLACKBERRY PIE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Take juicy blackberries, sweet with august sun Last Line: And there is more than a receipt to learn Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RED BEARD, by NUALA ARCHER Poem Source First Line: Travelling Last Line: My %breathing %blood Subject(s): Farm Life RED FOX, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The red fox sits alone upon a rock Last Line: Title returns to him when it grows dark! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RED RAIN, by YEN CHEN Poem Source First Line: February rain, red rain, Last Line: Is silently spread on the south yangtze Subject(s): Farm Life; Rain; Villages REDFIELD FARM, MICHIGAN, by HERBERT BUCKLEN BRADY Poem Text First Line: At dawn the ragged sun - glints splash the morning - glories' lips Last Line: "oh god, our country, our land for always!" Subject(s): Beauty; Farm Life; Love; Mourning; Agriculture; Farmers; Bereavement RELAY AT EVENING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The dogs send signals in the hollow dusk Last Line: Strange and deep Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life REMOVAL OF OUR VILLAGE, KWABHANYA, by MBUYISENI OSWALD JOSEPH MTSHALI Poem Source First Line: O, I remember you Last Line: Mlungu, we are zulus, born fighters, %we will take our spears and fight for our lands Subject(s): Farm Life REPORTER AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I must record important happenings Last Line: I wonder what the scale will be Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life REQUIEM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: To mourn a fallen friend Last Line: If not to praise the dead? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality RESURRECTION, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Though art and learning currently decline Last Line: So was catullus spared oblivion Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality RESURRECTION, by E. H. PORTER Poem Source First Line: In varied changelessness earth waits serene Subject(s): Farm Life RETURN, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: They who quit the soil with hopes swung high Last Line: As strong hands close again on rusting plow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming; Agriculture; Farmers RETURN TO THE BEARTOOTH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Each year our packs grow heavier Last Line: Of the mountain older Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality RETURNING TO DWELL IN GARDENS AND FIELDS: 3, by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the outlands few things trouble a man Last Line: And they will fall to ruin with common weeds Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Farm Life RETURNING TO FIELDS AND GARDENS (2), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I plant beans below the southern hill: Last Line: I choose not to avoid anything that comes Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening REUBEN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not) Last Line: In henly meditation, bullet free. Subject(s): Farm Life; Guns; Hens; Agriculture; Farmers REVELATION 20:11-15, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a farmboy who had drowned that wednesday Last Line: We were amazed. Subject(s): Boys; Death; Drowning; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers REVEREND DAN RICE, by BRUCE RICE Poem Source First Line: Up first thing and ride Last Line: Through brief shoals of aspen Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Harvest; Rice RICE, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: It is our very teeth that we sink in the earth Last Line: Anoint the earth and make it good to eat Subject(s): China; Farm Life; Mongols And Mongolia; Rice RICE PLANTING, by AMY UYEMATSU Poem Source First Line: Even my mother has taught herself %to acquire the taste of butter & bread Last Line: From the fourth generation %tells me he's hungry and smiles %when I hand him a riceball %the size of Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Rice RICHARD RECITES THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Four score and seven years... The boy's head Last Line: And the tall gaunt man with the bowed head Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RICHER THINGS, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: I have forsaken myrtle bordered bowers Subject(s): Farm Life RIDGE RUNNER, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: If I could live on white oak ridge Subject(s): Farm Life RIDING HORSE TO CULTIVATE IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hottest seat in any state Last Line: This riding horse to cultivate. Subject(s): Farm Life; Horseback Riding; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers RIDING THE BUS IN MIDWINTER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If a barn could loosen itself Subject(s): Buses; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers RIDING UP THE TANANA RIVER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I saw the mountains moving to the sea - Last Line: And too thick to drink Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life RIGHT HAND OF A MEXICAN FARMWORKER, SOMERSET COUNTY, MD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A rosary tattoo %betwen thumb Last Line: Means that christ %had hard hands %too Subject(s): Farm Life; Hispanic Americans ROCKY MOUNTAINS, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Inscrutable Subject(s): Farm Life ROGATION DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the orchards, under Subject(s): Farm Life; Italy; Agriculture; Farmers; Italians ROGATION DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the orchards, under Last Line: To go nowhere at all Subject(s): Farm Life; Italy ROOTS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it our craziness even Last Line: Call it anything Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ROOTS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it our craziness even Last Line: Whatever you have to, %call it anything Subject(s): Farm Life RUNAWAY, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now after bob had fed the cattle Last Line: Westward again, and was gone forever. Subject(s): Farm Life; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips RUNAWAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Caraway and tansy, catnip and fever few Last Line: Growing in a garden with herbs and marigold Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SACRIFICE, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: While xerxes' fleet labored along the coast Last Line: The gods bestow their blessings for a price Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SAGE HEN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: To slake her fledglings' thirst Last Line: Because we do not nest Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SAILOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: His thoughts are like a brook that always runs Last Line: When tides are always pulling at his heart Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SAINT FRANCIS AND THE SOW, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bud / stands for all things Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints; Agriculture; Farmers SAINT FRANCIS AND THE SOW, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bud %stands for all things Last Line: The long, perfect loveliness of sow Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints SAME DOOR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I see you in this scattered company Last Line: It is small comfort to me that you are not alone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SAN YSIDRO LABRADOR, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May our work enrich the earth. Hear our request Last Line: This night, and at our death, en paz may we rest Subject(s): Farm Life; Isidore The Laborer (or, Farmer), Saint (1070-1130) SATURDAYS, by KENNETH C. STEVEN Poem Source First Line: We used to go there for eggs Last Line: On the long bounce home Subject(s): Farm Life SAVING OF THE LEAVES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Old leaves are precious Last Line: Behind the rake Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SAVING THE RAIN IN BARRELS, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nights, I rode my father's pickup Last Line: Spiraling for those that stumble %under the sun and fall Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Subject(s): Farm Life; Water SAXON HARVEST HEALTH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the plow that furrowed Last Line: The blessing of sheaves of grain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers SAYING GRACE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My father bowed his head and waited, still Last Line: Thanksgiving was my father, saying grace Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SAYINGS OF HENRY STEPHENS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you get enough money Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Farm Life; Coal Mines & Miners; Springfield, Illinois'; Strikes; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Agriculture; Farmers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts SCALING PARNASSUS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Dragonflies whose wings %flutter in sultry air Last Line: And some forgotten kings Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SCHOOL, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old hezekiah leaned hard on his hoe Last Line: "he said: ""to hoe." Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Farm Life; Meriden Academy, New Hampshire; Agriculture; Farmers SCHOOL DROP-OUTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: You see them standing on street corners Last Line: Without care Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SCHOOLMATE, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: Dear to my heart the unforgotten junes Subject(s): Farm Life SEA SHELL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It took a pell mell storm Last Line: What sculptor carved this curving carapace? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SEARCHERS, by ANNABEL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: From conner's ridge high above the foggy bottom Last Line: My need to ask him why Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Fields SECRETS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Some secrets of the winter woods Last Line: To those who see - and want to know Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SELF-REJECTED, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plow not nor plant this arid mound Last Line: Spare your trouble. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism SELLING A COW IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoa! Whitey; morning, neighbor bell Last Line: They're passing not to come again. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers SEPARATION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well my cadillac now that the hog herding has begun Last Line: Just where our lovers die Subject(s): Absence; Farm Life; Iowa; Pigs; Separation; Isolation; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs SEPTEMBER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Fox grapes hang purple on the hillside vines Last Line: This is the rich fulfillment of a dream Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SEQUOIA, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This tree was ancient when the fishermen Last Line: Upon earth's oldest living monument Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SERFS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has planted the fields black with crows Last Line: To make an earth that can be made a hell. Subject(s): Birds; Dirt; Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers SERIOUS STEP LIGHTLY TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between two burrs on the map Last Line: A half a dozen major wars, %and forty-five presidents Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Farm Life SHALL VERMONTERS RAISE SHEEP?, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see the boston papers say Last Line: Until there's more demand for sheep. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SHARECROPPER, by STEWART ATKINS Poem Source First Line: This was his life - overalls, cotton, sweat Subject(s): Farm Life SHARING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My flower bed grows more than weeds and Last Line: I thought I lived here all alone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SHE COMES INTO THE BARN TO SAY HELLO, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: I tell her, bacon, coffee, juice, four eggs Subject(s): Farm Life SHEEP CHILD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farm boys wild to couple Last Line: Themselves, they marry, they raise their kind Subject(s): Farm Life SHEEPRANCHER NAMED JOHN, by GRETEL EHRLICH Poem Source First Line: A swarming %orange as bees into hair, a face Last Line: Shy penis, mostly %swirled white Subject(s): Farm Life SHEP'S LAST STAND, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: A flyblown german shepherd Last Line: Swarmed over the slats Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SHORT STORY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather killed a mule with a hammer Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SHORT STORY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather killed a mule with a hammer Last Line: And only a few of us are left %who ever heard that story Subject(s): Farm Life SHOVEL PEOPLE, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: It happened by accident: I was in the middle Last Line: And I dreamed about how life would be, could be, with %the s Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Labor And Laborers; Shovels SHYNESS OF THE MUSE IN AN ALMOND ORCHARD, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray-green husks are opening. The wasps Last Line: But not that I was here, that he was lonely Subject(s): Farm Life; Solitude; Agriculture; Farmers SIDNEY LANIER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: He was aware of unheard symphonies Last Line: He writes the lyric for some deathless score Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SIMPLE TRUTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes Last Line: In a form we have no words for, and you live on it Subject(s): Farm Life; Truth SINCE NINEVEH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The levelled cities sowed with salt Last Line: And hear again the ancient, why? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SINFONIETTA: 1.AN OAK IN AMHERST, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Her attic -- like a bark Last Line: Doubtless a lightning stroke Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SINFONIETTA: 2.DA TROWIE BURN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: My kinsman, aly bain Last Line: My forebears left behind Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SINFONIETTA: 3.THE HATCH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Over the sodden ditches Last Line: And offspring of the storm Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SINFONIETTA: 4.A LOVE OF KIND, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Scribblers to be rid of Last Line: When I dispense with love: %anacreon, ronsard Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SINGING, THE WHILE YOU WORK, by GLADYS RAY SNAKENBERG Poem Source First Line: My faith looks up to thee,' your clear Subject(s): Farm Life SKATING POND, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, a fire. Father would bring the wood and stack it Last Line: And seen the story of a joy no cbild, n o man, could ever repeat Subject(s): Farm Life; Skating & Skaters SKY, FENCE, FIELDS, by ALEXANDRA BURACK Poem Source First Line: He'd used his life well, mostly low to the crops Last Line: Than he'd ever thought a farm could go Subject(s): Farm Life SLEEPLESS NIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Words chase each other through my mind Last Line: Then I get back to sleep again Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SMALL BOY SLEEPING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is a breathless moment in the night Last Line: For boys who sleep unguarded in the dark Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SMALL FARMER, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yessum, I'm a farmer Subject(s): Farm Life SMALL TOWN LOVE STORY, by PAMELA BURDAK Poem Source First Line: Small owls in barns take up space Last Line: Of water that was suppose to turn the stone Subject(s): Farm Life; Love SMOKE, by DAVID BAKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young and the moneyed have blown Last Line: To be smoke floating up to the stars Subject(s): Farm Life; Smoke SMOKE HOUSE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The smokehouse smelled of hickory chips Last Line: The smokehouse flavor, fresh upon his tongue Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SNAKE, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of october %I found on the floor of the woods Last Line: Big with a death to nourish him %during a long sleep Subject(s): Farm Life SOLITARY POND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fall we moved to the farm, I was thirteen Last Line: The very scratches left by my experiement Subject(s): Farm Life SOLSTICE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: The fat sun has stalled in the sky Last Line: And far off as a wedding night Subject(s): Farm Life SOME ASHES DRIFTING ABOVE PIEDRA, CALIFORNIA, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is still one field I can love Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SOME ASHES DRIFTING ABOVE PIEDRA, CALIFORNIA, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is still one field I can love Last Line: Easily away, without comment, %on the wind Subject(s): Farm Life SOME GRASS ALONG A DITCH BANK, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what happens to grass Last Line: But then growing still again Subject(s): Farm Life SOME GRASS ALONG A DITCH BANK, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SOMEONE ELSE'S SUGARCANE, by JOAO CABRAL DE MELO NETO Poem Source First Line: The one who walks and plants Last Line: To be pressed in the living grave Subject(s): Farm Life SOMETHING FOR HOPE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the present rate it must come to pass Last Line: But spes alii agricolam ‘tis said Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism SOMETHING FOR HOPE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the present rate it must come to pass Last Line: Hope may not nourish a cow or horse, %but spes alit agriculam 'tis said Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope SOMETIMES BEES SPEND THE NIGHT AWAY FROM HOME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes bees spend the night away from home Last Line: To the hidden home hive? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SOMETIMES, YOU STARS, I THINK YOU DO US ILL, by H. J. Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You lean on a wire fence, looking across Last Line: That settles down around you like the dust Subject(s): Farm Life SON, by LILIAN BOWES-LYON Poem Source First Line: A middle-aged farm-labourer lived here Last Line: The man looks bent; yet neither girds at god, %remembering it was beautiful while it lasted Subject(s): Farm Life; War SONG, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Last night the seeking wind sang Subject(s): Farm Life SONG, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: No toil so harsh but comes at length to rest Subject(s): Farm Life SONG, by REBECCA TURNER Poem Source First Line: I'm glad my eyes may see the sun Subject(s): Farm Life SONG FOR MY BIRTHDAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I am older now Last Line: Or the snow a sheltering wing? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SONG OF ENVY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Out of the chilly landscape goes the fat and drowsy bear Last Line: No income tax, no ration books, no war communiques! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SONG OF SUMMER, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Now summer's tones are rich and soft Subject(s): Farm Life SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We bore him through the golden land Last Line: Are dreaming of the spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; Day; Death; Farm Life; Grief; Harvest; Hope; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONGS OF THE NORTH: 1. THE WEAVER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Her loom is bone Last Line: She weaves, unravels %and weaves again Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SONGS OF THE NORTH: 2. THE BARRENS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The snowy owl %swoops on a vole Last Line: Has emptied the north Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SONGS OF THE NORTH: 3. THREE FOXES, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The red fox sleeps in the woods Last Line: And sleeps in the snows Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SONGS OF THE NORTH: 4. GRONLAND, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The last ship sails Last Line: Breed in the lemming years Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SONGS OF THE NORTH: 5. MAN OF THE NORTH, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I am a wall of rock Last Line: With all hands drowned Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SONNET, by MARJORIE GOODBURNE Poem Source First Line: See how your world of men can fail its sons Subject(s): Farm Life SONNET, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sashay with shakespeare. Scribblers can cavort Last Line: Your words are fresh with an immortal dew Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SONNET TO A PLOW-WOMAN OF NORWAY, by MARGARET TOD RITTER Poem Text First Line: Deep-bosomed, stalwart-limbed, superbly made Last Line: She lifts a brief intoxicated glance. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women; Agriculture; Farmers SONNET TO THIS SOIL, by JESSIE WILMORE MURTON Poem Source First Line: O dark and ruddy soil! How could I Subject(s): Farm Life SONNET: 2, 1, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That boy, the farmer said, with hazel wand Last Line: The pokeberry spit purple on my hand? Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SOURCE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: What tick and tock? Last Line: Brave scientist! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SOUTHERN AGRARIAN POET, by MARY B. WARD Poem Text First Line: Kaleidoscopic, turning, turning Last Line: And antaeus-like takes strength from soil. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers SOUTHERN COMFORT: A GENTLEMAN, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evenings / the sky turns blood Last Line: Or lost. Subject(s): Farm Life; Slavery; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs SOUTHERN FARM HOUSE, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hardened and sinewed by the summer sun Last Line: And all their somber years of silent grief. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SOW PIGLET'S ESCAPES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the little sow piglet squirmed free Last Line: She wriggled hard and cried, oui oui oui, all the way home Subject(s): Farm Life SOWER, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A brown, sad-coloured hillside, where the soil Last Line: This plodding churl grows great in his employ;- %god-like, he makes provision for mankind Subject(s): Farm Life SOWER AND SEED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A kindly word and a kindly deed Subject(s): Farm Life SOWING, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a perfect day Last Line: Saying good-night Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds SPINNER OF FROST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Frost spider, spinning a silvery web Last Line: Frost cannot hold flame Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SPLITTING FIREWOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The wood was tough: his stance was wide Last Line: The years stack up like a rank of wood Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SPOILS, by GEORGE WITTE Poem Source First Line: The fields near ours sprout crops of signs Last Line: He's abandoned, that scalds my pocket now Subject(s): Abandonment; Farm Life SPRING CLEANING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Roll up the snow fence, winter - staggered Last Line: To strut and hop and flutter! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SPRING CLIMBS HIGH, by ALTA BOOTH DUNN Poem Source First Line: Behold! The sage is bright and blossoming Subject(s): Farm Life SPRING SONG, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Oh the grouse are loudly drumming Last Line: And sparrows wildly fucking Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SPRING. KOREA 1951, by PATRICK JOSEPH GREGORY KAVANAGH Poem Source First Line: The paper house was empty in the middle of the paddy Last Line: Waiting for us to go Subject(s): Farm Life SPROUT, by KORA RUMIKO Poem Source First Line: When I discovered Last Line: Not to tear, but to yield Subject(s): Farm Life ST. SWITHIN'S DAY, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: The seven cleanest cows crowd Last Line: Lowering on us like despair Subject(s): Farm Life STABLE TALK, by RAYMOND KNISTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have sweat our share Last Line: Tomorrow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers STAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The fragrance of the pine is myrrh Last Line: The steadfast christmas star has shone Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STEALING POTATOES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: My mother taught me how to steal potatoes Last Line: Then feast Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STOMPING THE BEAVER PLACE, by ROGER WEINGARTEN Poem Source First Line: Water flows down the mountain Last Line: Inside her, ready to scream Subject(s): Farm Life STONE ARABIA, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses bisect the field Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers STONES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The young man walked in stones and stubble Last Line: He shares a field with them today Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STOPPING AT THE STATION, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The train made a ceremony of arrival Last Line: And a quiet huff huff puff puff puff puff Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STOPPING BY THE MANOR OF AN OLD FRIEND, by MENG HAO-JAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My old friend cooked chicken and millet Last Line: And I'll come back for chysanthemums Alternate Author Name(s): Meng Hao-ran Subject(s): Farm Life; Friendship; Nature STORM AND KINDNESS, by BLANCHE PEASE Poem Source First Line: I shall never cease to fear Subject(s): Farm Life STOVE WOOD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The sugar maples herd within the grove Last Line: I still have tears to mourn the dryad's fall Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STRANGER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes I almost hate her - this stranger Last Line: Stranger in my house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STRAY CAT NAMED MEECH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When he came to us out of the wet woods Last Line: In the woods Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STRUCK BY LIGHTNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Alone all day Last Line: I have shaken hands with lightning Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life STRUT, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning to guard against glut I chop %zucchini zealots for the lambs Last Line: Of birth and rebirth the strut of the season. %almost bliss Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Farm Life SUGAR SLAVE, by THYLIAS MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a time a little boy felled a tree Last Line: Refined and in the jar you pass upon request Subject(s): Farm Life SUITE TO APPLENESS: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the quonset shed unloading the fertilizer Last Line: Losing shape, into a thick green slime and jelly. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fruit; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers SUMMER, by BINYO IVANOV Poem Source First Line: On this long farm facing rila mountain Last Line: Will keep on heading east Subject(s): Farm Life SUMMER HILLS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I will go back to the summer hills Last Line: The young, glad days, when we walked together Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SUMMER SNOW, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When stoneflies hatch %on the yellowstone Last Line: Fish and give thanks Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SUMMER TIME ON BREDON, by HUGH KINGSMILL LUNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis summer time on bredon Last Line: The cattle then are sick. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Hugh Variant Title(s): Poem (after A.e. Housman) Subject(s): Bredon Hill; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SUN BATHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: She never heard of helios or ra Last Line: As the sun god laid his hand upon her back Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SUNSET AT THE GETTY, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Framed by the villa's fluted colonnades Last Line: The treasures of the getty from their tomb? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality SUNSET ON CRYSTAL LAKE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The sunset streams across the lake Last Line: Water and sky grow dark together Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life SWEET CORN, by SUSAN RONEY-O'BRIEN Poem Source First Line: March, mud-kneeling, harlan Last Line: The broken ones, we chop down Subject(s): Farm Life; Gardens And Gardening; Memory; Neighbors SWINEHERD, by EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all this is over,' said the swineherd Alternate Author Name(s): Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean Subject(s): Farm Life; Retirement; Agriculture; Farmers SWINEHERD, by EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When all this is over,' said the swineherd Last Line: And the apple-blossom is allowed to wither on the bough Alternate Author Name(s): Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean Subject(s): Farm Life; Retirement SYMPTOMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not a-workin' now! Last Line: I'm not a-workin' now! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Idleness; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Work; Workers TAKING AWAY THE BANKING, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When march winds carried prophecies of june Last Line: When all the hills of god kept holiday. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Farm Life; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers TAKING THE OLD ROAD, by VERN RUTSALA Poem Source First Line: Yesterday we fell for it again Last Line: Windows in all the lonely farmhouses Subject(s): Farm Life; Maps; Roads; Travel Directions TALE: 3. THE GENTLEMAN FARMER, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all Last Line: She rules a mistress, and she reigns a wife. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TALL NETTLES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall nettles cover up, as they have done Last Line: Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TAMED DRAKE, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Source First Line: The farmer's son had found Subject(s): Farm Life; Geese TAPPING THE SAP BUSH - 1918, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Not spring, and not winter either Last Line: But sapping time Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TEACHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here is a man whose hand has pointed out Last Line: For love of life and living and for laughter Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TEACHER REMEMBERED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Her thoughts were never folded in a book Last Line: And see her face on every turning page Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TEMPLE OF ATTIS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: On cybele's holy hill Last Line: The throne of peter stands Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TEN CENTS A POUND, by PAUL BONE Poem Source First Line: The pumpkins are spread out like swollen suns Last Line: I've forgotten which one of us is the planet and which the orbit Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit TENANT FARMER'S WIFE, by JEFF DANIEL MARION Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It never fails, what breaks is what Last Line: In a place that's not my own Subject(s): Appalachia; Farm Life; Loss; Man-woman Relationships TEXAS, by LAVELLE MADDOX Poem Source First Line: This land I know is texas, loved for these Subject(s): Farm Life THANK GERARD, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Cascade: rain torrential rain Subject(s): Rain; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THANKSGIVING, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I sided with the sleepwalkers. Today Last Line: Of wheat loomed as a story the farmers %cannot wait to tell Subject(s): Farm Life; Holidays; Pilgrims And Pilgrimages; Thanksgiving; Turkey THANKSGIVING HYMN, by EDDA AYERS Poem Source First Line: Happy am I when the year brims over Subject(s): Farm Life THANKSGIVING HYMN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A scarlet thread of wonder Last Line: Runs through the woof of days Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THAT WAS A CHRISTMAS!, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The lean years were the best years, looking back - Last Line: That was a christmas to warm me all my life! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THAT'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any stranger thinks vermont Last Line: Or boom! Bing! Bang! Wow! Wang! And zip! Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers THE 'TRUE VERMONTER', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said the true vermonter's gait Last Line: Is thunderation on a guess. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Fields; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE A & P, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rolled a tomato in her hand, pink rubber Subject(s): Farm Life; Migrant Workers; Food & Eating; Supermarkets THE AFTERNOON NAP, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: The farmer sat in his easy chair Last Line: Fast asleep were they both, that summer day! Variant Title(s): A Picture Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Sleep; Agriculture; Farmers THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW, FLEMINGTON, VICTORIA, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lumbering tractor rolls its panting round Last Line: Quiet lakes and milking sheds; 'fares please, fares please.' Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Exhibitions; Farm Life; World's Fairs; Expositions; Agriculture; Farmers THE BALER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tourist composed upon that fence Last Line: And half-feathered sparrows, whipped by a bleeding snake Subject(s): Farm Life; Hay & Haymaking; Agriculture; Farmers THE BEAN EATERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair Last Line: Tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Farm Life; Old Age; United States; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; America THE BIRTHPLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here further up the mountain slope Last Line: And now her lap is full of trees Variant Title(s): The Birthday Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; Holidays; Home; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BISHOP'S SEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the see, the see, the bishop's see" Last Line: Shall come to the wealthy bishop's see Subject(s): Clergy;death;farm Life;love; "priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;dead, The;agriculture;farmers; THE BITING INSECTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The biting insects don't like the blood of people who dread dying Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACK FACED SHEEP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruminant pillows! Gregarious soft boulders! Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortality; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACKBERRY PICKER, by CHRISTINE SLOAN Poem Text First Line: Just as the sun begins to tint Last Line: And makes his simple trade. Subject(s): Blackberries; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACKBIRD AND THE THRUSH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's my idee,' a blackbird said Last Line: "and a parrot said: ""so do I." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Fables; Farm Life; Parrots; Thrushes; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers THE BOBBIN-WINDER, by JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH ARCHER Poem Text First Line: I saw time sitting on a stool Last Line: And a thing of beauty wrought. Subject(s): Farm Life; South Dakota; Agriculture; Farmers THE BROKEN GROUND, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opening out and out Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE BULL-ROARER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I only saw my father's face in butchery Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE CARTER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, I be a carter wi' my whip Last Line: The heavy lwoad do slowly ride. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Trucks & Trucking; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight THE CASTLE-BUILDER, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It happened on a summer's day Last Line: Cow, calf, and farm—all swam away! Subject(s): Fables; Farm Life; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers THE CHILD AN' THE MOWERS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O. Aye! They had woone child bezide Last Line: Aye! The zwath-flow'r's a-killed by the zun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Mowing & Mowers; Death - Babies; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers THE CODE - HEROICS, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were three in the meadow by the brook Last Line: "discharge me? No! He knew I did just right." Subject(s): Farm Life THE COLT AND THE FARMER, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, corinna, if you can Last Line: A living death, from year to year.' Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Charm; Farm Life; Horses; Women; Agriculture; Farmers THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! No, poll, no! Since they've a-took Last Line: Vrom all the housen round. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Memory; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE COTSWOLD FARMERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the ghosts forgotten go Last Line: No ghostly harvester. Subject(s): Cows; Fairies; Farm Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Elves; Agriculture; Farmers THE COUNTRY LOVERS; OR, ISAAC AND MARGET GOING TO TOWN, by GEORGE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Come! Marget, come! - the team is at the gate! Last Line: They'll meet us ere we leave the narrow way. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE CUCUMBER, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow is knee-deep in the courtyard Last Line: It hasn't let up all morning Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DANCER, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dancer mended sheep and tended fences Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DAVENTRY WONDER; SHOWING HOW FARMER B-LL'S BEES ISSUED ..., by AGRICOLA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "now cynthia shone serene, and every star" Last Line: "let learned macclesfield say what he will, / spite of new style, we'll keep old christmas still" Alternate Author Name(s): Agricola Subject(s): Bees;christmas;farm Life;holidays;insects; "beekeeping;nativity, The;agriculture;farmers;bugs; THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEAD CALF, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow has fallen Last Line: In the baling arms of the tractor. Subject(s): Cows; Death - Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DIFFICULT LAND, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a difficult land. Here things miscarry Subject(s): Farm Life; Endurance; Survival; Agriculture; Farmers THE DOCTOR'S STORY, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good folks ever will have their way Last Line: I'll give her medicine made by men. Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Physicians; Farm Life; Cures; Faith THE DOE; A FRAGMENT, FR. WANDERING WILLIE, AN UNFINISHED EARLY POEM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And - 'yonder look! Yoho! Yoho! Last Line: The vital prop of human pride. Subject(s): Daughters; Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE DROUTH AND THE FARMER, by MARVIN E. HARVEY Poem Text First Line: His body sore and tired from working Last Line: Seize its brilliance -- fire and all. Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DRY SPELL, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking early / with the warming house Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Cokking & Cooks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers THE EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; United States - Race Relations; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind; Agriculture; Farmers THE EPISTLE TO MRS. SCOTT OF WAUCHOPE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I mind it weel in early date Last Line: Ne'er at your hallan ca'! Subject(s): Farm Life; Women THE FARM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tenant at will indeed I am; & yet Last Line: Who would not chuse to be freeholders there? Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Worship; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on top of the hay Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old macdonald had a farm Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM AGAIN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreamy rain comes down Last Line: Gay phantom armies pass. Subject(s): Farm Life; Laughter; Rain; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM ON THE GREAT PLAINS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A telephone line goes cold Subject(s): Farm Life; Mormons; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM ON THE LINKS, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray o'er the pallid links, haggard and forsaken Last Line: Only the old home welcomes them again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM-WOMAN'S WINTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If seasons all were summers Last Line: And what I love not, brings. Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM; TO HAMO THORNYCROFT, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the soft warm west Last Line: To chant a threnody divine. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though hoarfrost rimes the barnyard Last Line: And hits the weather vane. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still-blistering late afternoon Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER AND THE COUNSELLOR, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A counsel in the common pleas Last Line: "but not so many as when you were there!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Law & Lawyers; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's up at daybreak in the morning Last Line: And wholesome as mountain air. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, the year's decline, midst storms and floods Subject(s): Farm Life; Autumn; Weather; Disappointment; Agriculture; Farmers; Fall THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come, blest spirit! Wheresoe'er thou art Subject(s): Farm Life; Spring; Seeds; Cheese; Sheep; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer's life displays in every part Subject(s): Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY: WINTER, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With kindred pleasures moved, and cares opprest Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter; Animals; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BRIDE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three summers since I chose a maid Last Line: The brown of her -- her eyes, her hair, her hair! Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S HEAD, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that instant there came a crash more terrific than any that had Last Line: He was rapidly shouting this as he ran from the barn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S INGLE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whan gloaming grey out owr the welkin keeks Last Line: And a lang lasting train o' peaceful hours succeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S ROUND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: First comes january Last Line: A prosperous new year Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture;farmers THE FARMER'S SOLILOQUY, by ROBERT CHARLES O'HARA BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a thousand tongues to sing Last Line: Whilst few ask for religion. Subject(s): Farm Life; Religion; Agriculture; Farmers; Theology THE FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S WIFE AND THE GASCON, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At neufchatel, in france, where they prepare Last Line: The bottle-nose belonging to the judge! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Judges; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER, THE SPANIEL, AND THE CAT, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why knits my dear her angry brow? Last Line: And spurn'd the snarler from his side. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Cats; Dogs; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth full of wet bandanna bound Last Line: Down the steps, back to the fields and the reaping. Subject(s): Farm Life; Rape; Women - Abused; Agriculture; Farmers; Wife Beating THE FARMERS OUTLAW WEEDS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer lords of podunkville proclaimed a big conclave Last Line: For diplomats who resolute against the weed called war! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farm Life; Government; Law & Lawyers; Social Protest; War; Weeds; Agriculture; Farmers; Attorneys THE FARMSTEAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I love the homestead. There Last Line: In the hush the evenings bring. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIELD, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: I stand again in the field Last Line: Something he wished to keep ... And kept remembering. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIRE OF DRIFTWOOD; DEVEREUX FARM, NEAR MARBLEHEAD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat within the farmhouse old Last Line: The thoughts that burned and glowed within. Subject(s): Farm Life; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIRST BIRTH, by RODNEY JONES Poet's Biography First Line: I had not been there before where the vagina opens Subject(s): Birth; Cattle; Farm Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Agriculture; Farmers THE FLAMES, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1972 I crossed kansas on a bus Last Line: A speechless church out of your dark / and invisible face Subject(s): Buses; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FLYING CHANGE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: The canter has two stride patterns, one on the right lead Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FROST, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: The dawn - cold, pallid, half afraid, it seems Last Line: Shall we go in? For the new day is here. Subject(s): Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations THE FUNERAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It felt like the zero in brook ice Last Line: The cancer ate her like horse piss eats deep snow. Subject(s): Aunts; Cancer (disease); Farm Life; Funerals; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers; Burials THE GATE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dust is thick along the road Last Line: "shadowed cool by a cassia tree." Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE GUM GATHERER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There overtook me and drew me in Last Line: And bring it to market when you please. Subject(s): Farm Life THE HAPPY FARMER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saw ye the farmer at his plough Last Line: The farmer's life may be. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HAPPY LITTLE WIFE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, gudhand, have you sold the cow Last Line: To be all in all through life. Subject(s): Marriage; Humor; Farm Life THE HARVEST, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise now and go into the fields, to my love who / is at work Last Line: Where peace is and the quiet of the hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Love; Peace; Agriculture; Farmers THE HAYFORK, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could get up from this kitchen table, I think Last Line: At the grain n the wood of this kitchen table Subject(s): Farm Life THE HILL FARMER SPEAKS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the farmer, stripped of love Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HINT BEYOND, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He and the wilder part of earth Last Line: A hint of blue, a ghost of gold. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HUNGRY GAP-TIME, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late august, before the harvest, every one of us worn down Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HUSKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was late in mild october, and the long autumnal rain Last Line: Send up our thanks to god! Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers THE HUSKING CHAMP, by RAY MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Fast, grasping hands both lithe and strong Last Line: A king of toil, a husking champ. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HWOMESTEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had all the land my zight Last Line: To zee how things do grow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Property; Quiet Life; Wishes; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE HWOMESTEAD A-VELL INTO HAND, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house where I wer born an' bred Last Line: By elems that did break the storm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Homesteaders; Loss; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE LARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I, below the mornen sky Last Line: An' uncaught larks ageän mid sound. Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Larks; Agriculture; Farmers; Skylarks THE LAST OF MAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plantin' time's already here Last Line: As to lose his soul. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Seeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LIFE OF JOHN HERITAGE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the cotswolds in eighteen-forty or so Last Line: Fall in with strange foot-fellows on the road. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LITTLE FARM, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired, I went away from town Last Line: And bright dawn in his breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LIVING, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After independence day / all our toys began to tear Subject(s): Cotton; Farm Life; African Americans - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Black Heritage THE LONG TRAIL: THE CORN LANDS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: And the corn-lands call! The long, long trail Last Line: From the soft blue haze of the timber line. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Under the lifting ridges of smoke Last Line: Is come—is come! Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE RANGE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Or the dull gaze lifts Last Line: To warmer crests with their glimpse of sea. Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LOVERS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keeping hope in the field of next year's harvest Last Line: Dreams, he finds her barren and love spent. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE MAD FARMER REVOLUTION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad farmer, the thirsty one Last Line: Practice resurrection Subject(s): Christianity; Farm Life; Religion; Agriculture; Farmers; Theology THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: After the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology THE MEMORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton rows crisscross the world Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MOUNTAIN FARM, by WALTER HARD Poem Text First Line: The farm lay along the slope of the mountain Last Line: "it'd jest be a worriment." Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MULLINS FARM, by RICHARD H. W. DILLARD Poet's Biography First Line: The sun through the window Alternate Author Name(s): Dillard, R. H. W. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE NEW STYLE WESTERN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The two horsemen Last Line: Of living together Subject(s): Farm Life; Rio Grande River; West (u.s.); Agriculture; Farmers; Southwest; Pacific States THE NIGHT HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laughed when the dawn was a-peepin' Last Line: And a lone rider sings to the moon? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE OBSCURE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the poor first light of morning Last Line: That her breasts filled the window like a mouth. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Pigs; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Boars; Hogs THE OLD BREVOORT FARM, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A snug little farm was the old brevoort Last Line: Eleventh street's not opened through, to this day! Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE OLD FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Oh, the old, old farm, and the old farm's joys! Last Line: "across the twilight's dusk and grey, still calls, ""come, boys, come in""!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains THE OLD HAYMOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old haymow's the place to Last Line: Ac' ha'f-way like a gentleman! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE OLD PENNSYLVANIA FARMER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well - well! This is a comfort, now - the air is mild as may Last Line: There can't be rivers there and fields, without some sort o' farm! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Farm Life; Pennsylvania; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers THE OLD VERMONT FARM, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most every day some village care ...' Last Line: It's good enough for me. Subject(s): Farm Life; Horseback Riding; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers THE ONION, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The onion, now that's something else Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE ORCHARD AND THE HEATH, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chanced upon an early walk to spy Last Line: Far down with mellow orchards to endow. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Gypsies; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Gipsies THE PAINFUL PLOUGH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: That all mankind dependeth upon the painful plough Subject(s): Farm Life;plowing & Plowmen; Agriculture;farmers THE PASTURE BARS, by CHARLES H. STONE Poem Text First Line: The evening sky is all aglow Last Line: "co' boss, co' boss, co' boss." Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 102, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I retired to the edge of a forest Last Line: Of bobbing ducks on the waves Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Farm Life; Simplicity; Agriculture; Farmers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 118, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The month when farmers escape the heat Last Line: Sumeru is just a pea Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Farm Life; Heat; Wine; Agriculture; Farmers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 60, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A farmer with acres of mulberry groves Last Line: Dying of hunger and cold in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Farm Life; Pain; Agriculture; Farmers; Suffering; Misery THE POINTLESS NETHER PLOW, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is farming in an inclement sun system Last Line: Carving his soil with volcanic blue seeds Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE POTATO DIGGER'S SONG, by THOMAS CAULFIELD IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, connal, acushla, turn the clay Last Line: Of ireland. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE PRODIGAL'S BROTHER SPEAKS, by BESS SAMUEL AYRES Poem Text First Line: Each night he talked of distant joppa's lure Last Line: And share vicariously his garnered sights. Subject(s): Brothers; Duty; Farm Life; Travel; Half-brothers; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips THE PROUD FARMER, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the acres of the newborn state Last Line: And lion-dreams begin to burn within. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE REAPER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: All through the blood-red autumn Last Line: That the gleaner be glad in his gleaning. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers THE RIGHT HAND OF A MEXICAN FARMWORKER, SOMERSET COUNTY, MD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rosary tattoo / betwen thumb Subject(s): Farm Life; Hispanic Americans; Agriculture; Farmers; Latinos THE RISING OF THE SESSION, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a' men living be it kend Last Line: Wi blythsome glee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life; Time; Writing & Writers; Agriculture; Farmers THE RUSTIC PAINTER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His sheep went idly over the hills Last Line: With his little sweetheart's face. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Farm Life; Love THE RWOSE IN THE DARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In zummer, leate at evenen tide Last Line: Ov her bright feäce by mornèn light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Love; Marriage; Roses; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SABINE FARMER'S SERENADE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a windy night Last Line: Charming judy callaghan. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Variant Title(s): Charming Judy Callaghan Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Agriculture; Farmers THE SEASONS: SUMMER, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From brightening fields of ether fair Last Line: And ever rising with the rising mind. Subject(s): Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THE SECOND EPODE OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who free from cares and strife Last Line: In innocence of joy and rural mirth. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunting; Nature; Praise; Quiet Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Hunters THE SHEEP CHILD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farm boys wild to couple Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SHEPHERD O' THE FARM, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I be shepherd o' the farm Last Line: As ef I were a king a-crown'd. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SILENCE OF UNLABOURED FIELDS, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silence of unlaboured fields Last Line: But better human flesh and blood! Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh Subject(s): Mankind; Farm Life THE SIMPLE TRUTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes Subject(s): Farm Life; Truth; Agriculture; Farmers THE SNAKE, by WENDELL BERRY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of october / I found on the floor of the woods Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers 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 SOLITARY POND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fall we moved to the farm, I was thirteen Last Line: The very scratches left by my experiment Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SON; SOUTHERN OHIO MARKET TOWN, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard an old farm-wife Last Line: "but the harvest early." Subject(s): Farm Life; Mothers; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOW PIGLET'S ESCAPES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the little sow piglet squirmed free Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now falls the dusk I sit in peace Last Line: Athwart the starry world. Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peaceful and cool, the twilight grey Last Line: Seems to my eyes sublimely grand! Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWER AND HIS SEED, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He planted an oak in his father's park Last Line: And will never be heard again. Subject(s): Farm Life; Oak Trees; Thought; Agriculture; Farmers; Thinking THE SOWER'S SONG, by THOMAS CARLYLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now hands to seedsheet, boys! Last Line: For beast and man must be fed. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning sow thy seed, nor stay thy hand at evening hour Last Line: Laden with his sheaves of glory, doubtless shall return with singing. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers THE STRONG ARE SAYING NOTHING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soil now gets a rumpling soft and damp, Last Line: Hut the strong are saying nothing until they see Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SUMMER STORM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon-time I stood in the door-way to see Last Line: And talked of their homesteads instead of their hay. Subject(s): Farm Life; Storms; Agriculture; Farmers THE SUN IN THE CRADLE OF CORNFIELDS, by PAMELA MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: His laughter the burning of kindling Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire; Agriculture; Farmers THE TABLE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking back to the farm from the depot Subject(s): Farm Life; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE THREE-CORNERED LOT, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Said the farmer to his daughter: 'when I die, as like as not Last Line: "and the stone walls of the foolish man wherewith to build a home." Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers & Daughters; Inheritance & Succession; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs THE TIMES TABLE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than halfway up the pass Last Line: And bring back nature in people’s place Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE VERMONT 'HIRED MAN', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hired man we knew of yore Last Line: The past and present hired man. Subject(s): Cattle; Cows; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Milk; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Milkmen; Milkmaids THE VIOLET FARM, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I might choose my simple lot Last Line: Tis I would have a violet farm. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ambition; Farm Life; Flowers; Violets; Agriculture; Farmers THE WHITE BULLS OF HEAVEN, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The white bulls of java, weighing a thousand pounds Last Line: I am sure it is the only life god can taste Subject(s): Bulls; Indonesia; Farm Life; Death THE WOLD WAGGON, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girt wold waggon uncle had Last Line: V a-ben a-done vor years agoo. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers THE WOODCUT ON THE COVER OF ROBERT FROST'S COMPLETE POEMS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man plowing starts at the side of the field Last Line: Then walking home with the horses at end of day. Subject(s): Farm Life; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Plowing & Plowmen; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers THEN AS EACH APRIL SMILES, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Let me live close to the heart of things Subject(s): Farm Life THERE IS ROOM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Ironwood and whistlewood Last Line: There is room Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THERE SHALL BE SONGS WHEN I HAVE TIRED OF, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF SHIELDS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Followed after that person of shields Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Old Age; Travel THESE OBITUARIES OF RATTLESNAKES BEING EATEN BY THE HOGS, by ROGER WEINGARTEN Poem Source First Line: The artritic farmer and a calf watch dr. Graves Last Line: Off the tripes, he could pour us a sly drink from the cider jug Subject(s): Farm Life THEY COULDN'T BUY IT ALL, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: It seemed as if the huse were glad to see me Subject(s): Farm Life THEY PITY US WHO TURN THE SOIL THAT IT MAY, by MRS. CECIL D. BROWN Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life THEY PLOW, by GIOVANNI PASCOLI Poem Source First Line: In the field, where russet in the row Last Line: His tinkling, fine as gold Subject(s): Farm Life THEY SOWED AND WATERED, by OKOT P'BITEK Poem Source Last Line: Anointing the land Subject(s): Farm Life THIS GAME WE PLAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: They shared a house, a table and a bed Last Line: She wept to hear his faint voice cry, home! Free! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THIS IS THE DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Fiddleheads are crisp and green in the lower Last Line: Splashes white! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THIS MORNING, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barn bears the weight Last Line: Tremble as it passes Subject(s): Farm Life; Snow; Agriculture; Farmers THIS WAS HIS DREAM: THAT EARTH SHOULD GIVE, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer winds is sniffin' round Last Line: And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips fer me and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THOUGHTS NEAR ASHAMPSTEAD AERODROME, HARVEST-TIME, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Not for the last time be our england filled Last Line: "god bless friend hodge,"" they say; ""his gear be sped!" Subject(s): Airports; England - Social Life & Customs; Farm Life; Harvest; Old Age; Agriculture; Farmers THOUGHTS OF A TINY PIG, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a different life to live Last Line: To get away from the smell. Subject(s): Farm Life; Pigs; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs THREE-YEAR-OLD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: A three - year - old walks Last Line: Let me see, too! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THRESHING, by AMY FLEURY Poem Source First Line: Under the polished spokes of the sun Last Line: In sleep they will grow together, %root, stalk and grain Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Relationships THROUGH KITCHEN WINDOWS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Through kitchen windows we can see Last Line: At fruitful earth, and earth laid bare Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life THROUGH THE LOOKING MASK, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: The queen angelfish %and princess parrotfish Last Line: For its coral castle Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TILLAGE MARKS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Stones; Agriculture; Farmers; Granite; Rocks TIME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Time has us all in his pocket Last Line: We measured out Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TIRED LAND, by ELEANOR RHODES Poem Source First Line: In ill-won rest I lie stripped bare Subject(s): Earth; Farm Life TO A FRIEND, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Life rushes us along so fast' Subject(s): Farm Life TO A TULIP BED, SLEEPING, by RAYMOND PLANTZ Poem Source First Line: Far away the days and nights are coming to Subject(s): Farm Life; Gardens And Gardening TO A WALL OF FLAME IN A STEEL MILL, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, 1969, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Except under the cool shadows of the pines Subject(s): Fathers; Solitude; Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Agriculture; Farmers TO AN ARROGANT YOUNG MAN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Narcissus, gazing in a forest pool Last Line: Was twenty times more beautiful than you Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TO AN EDITOR, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Here at his desk where the sunshine lingers Subject(s): Farm Life TO BREAK OPEN EARTH FOR THE SAKE, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: Made fruitful by its flight Subject(s): Farm Life TO HIS DEAD MASTER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: You gave me a stone Last Line: It stuck in my throat Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TO LOSERS OF EARTH AND GOD, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: To all who lose the earthly touch Subject(s): Farm Life TO MS. ANN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will have to forget Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TO MS. ANN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will have to forget Last Line: And it has only been forever and %I will have to forget your face Subject(s): Farm Life TO MY HUSBAND, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: How casually you take my slate and school Subject(s): Farm Life TO MY MOTHER, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: You loved the roses. I heard you say Subject(s): Farm Life TO MY SON, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: These many years I've sought to shelter you Subject(s): Farm Life TO RISE AGAIN, by GERTRUDE SCOTT JEWELL Poem Source First Line: We must not be afraid to walk apart Subject(s): Farm Life TO TEACHERS OF THE YOUNG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Husbandman, for work prepare Last Line: Finds an early tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers TOAST, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: After we sail %the landlocked sea Last Line: Cheers to my dear %and only brother! Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TOBACCO MEN, by JAMES APPLEWHITE Poem Source First Line: Late fall finishes the season for marketing Last Line: A cloud's high forehead wears ice Subject(s): Farm Life; Smoking TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Weather; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TOO OLD TO TRANSPLANT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Mark left the hills for unaccustomed streets Last Line: Whose tap root withers, and green branches die Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A VOICE OVER THE EARTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of a voice floating round the earth Last Line: "wench: she cries, ""how good, how good it is, o come again!" Subject(s): Civilization; Farm Life; Fields; Peasantry; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE PLOUGHBOY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbirds sing so sweetly in the morning Last Line: Lord! It does make you sweat! Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Labor & Laborers; Singing & Singers; Stables; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Songs TOWER OF A COUNTRY TOWN, by SSU-MA KUANG Poem Source First Line: A solitary tower Last Line: I instruct the officers to reduce taxes; %it won't do to let farming suffer Subject(s): Farm Life; Landscape TRACES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: What trace of me marks hills Last Line: As the trackless wind Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRACK OF A STORM, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: We grieve for the twelve trees we lost last night Last Line: Lay claim to light and liberty at last Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TRACTOR, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tractor stands frozen - an agony Last Line: And the tractor, streaming with sweat, %raging and trembling and rejoicing Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Farm Life; Tractors TRANSPLANTED, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Katrina thought she could forget Last Line: And branch of her adopted land Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRAPPING SEASON, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: It's open season and I kneel before the yawning hole Last Line: So gather around! As usual, the treat is on the house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRAVELING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I wrap myself in morning mist Last Line: With no two days the same Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TREES AND CATTLE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many trees can stand unshaded Last Line: A ccow beneath it lies down Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TREES AND CATTLE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many trees can stand unshaded Last Line: A cow beneath it lies down Subject(s): Farm Life TROUBLE, WITH PLEASANT INTERLUDES: AGAINST, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the medieval village, 'decisions respecting plowing Last Line: And smack their silly heads against the trees Subject(s): Farm Life TROUT POOL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Feathers and ferns of light Last Line: Swim in dark water Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TRUST ME, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Lies are mean and sharp Last Line: You can trust me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TUMBLING OF WORMS, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in the thirties, in the midst of the depression, I fled the city Last Line: I never saw the old darned man again Variant Title(s): The Old Darned Ma Subject(s): Farm Life TURTLE CROSSING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: There is no hurry in his legs Last Line: And draws back in his sculptured shell Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life TWICE CURSED, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Bristling with fallen trees Last Line: Convert my woes to verse? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TWO DRESSES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: I had three dresses Subject(s): Farm Life TWO SONGS FOR RICHARD WILBUR: 1.LAMENT FOR THE MAKERS, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Auden lost in clerihews Last Line: Acquired grain by grain? %only you remain Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality TWO SONGS FOR RICHARD WILBUR: 2.THE LAST BELIEVER, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: When like a clipper ship Last Line: That teaches unbelievers to rejoice Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality UNCLE AN' AUNT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy uncle us'd to be Last Line: In leafy boughs a-swaÿèn. Subject(s): Aunts; Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Summer; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight UNCLE GEORGE, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some catastrophes are better than others Last Line: Held summer and winter against the slow blizzard, the sky Subject(s): Farm Life UNCLE JOHN FIDDLER, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked down on greasy, greasy Last Line: To hear the lord himself afiddling. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Farm Life; Roosters; Agriculture; Farmers; Cocks UNCLE OUT O' DEBT AN' OUT O' DANGER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ees; uncle had thik small hwomestead Last Line: Vor the vu'st that do meddle wi' me or my meäre.' Subject(s): Animals; Debt; Farm Life; Horses; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers UNDER RONDOUT RESERVOIR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Water holds no tracks Last Line: They travel now Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life UNFORGOTTEN, by HERBERT EVERELL RITTENBURG Poem Source First Line: I know not in what distant land Subject(s): Farm Life UNFORGOTTEN, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Some things there are I can't forget Subject(s): Farm Life UNINVITED GUEST, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Clothed in his full dress suit of black and white Last Line: So hold your nose! We came out second best Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life UNITED FRUIT CO, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the trumpets had sounded and all Last Line: In the vat of the carrion, fruit laden and foul Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Farm Life UNLESS I GO DOWN TOWN TO GET IT STRETCHED, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source Last Line: Before the tractor crashed into a beech Subject(s): Farm Life UNTILLABLE HILLS, by W. W. CHRISTMAN Poem Source First Line: A small, silent, bearded man Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains UNTITLED, by ZACH BERGER Poem Source First Line: However many books I read Last Line: From his bridle the farmer has hung %pretty golden bells Subject(s): Farm Life UP MOONHAW ROAD, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Up moonhaw road the maples burn Last Line: The unbelievable was there Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life VACATION TALE, by BRIAN BARTLETT Poem Source First Line: In a small house where farmhands had slept Last Line: Swallowed up in the wind? Subject(s): Farm Life; Vacation VALEDICTION, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You failed me, farmer, I was afraid you would Last Line: Through the long night that waits upon your span Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life VALENTINE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Carved with a pen knife on a gray beech bole Last Line: Inconstant love upon the constant tree Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life VEALERS, by MAXINE W. KUMIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They come forth with all four legs folded in Last Line: Their perfect flesh unstreaked with blood %or muscle, and we will eat Alternate Author Name(s): Kumin, Maxine Subject(s): Farm Life VELLEN THE TREE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, the girt elem tree out in little hwome groun Last Line: Wer a-stannèn this mornèn, an' now's a-cut down. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Farm Life; Lumber & Lumbering; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodsmen VERMONT, by MARTHA RONK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man next door came after three bitter days Last Line: No one could bring one's self to thank anyone for Subject(s): Poverty; Farm Life; Lilacs VERMONT CORN MEAL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What fun it used to be to feel Last Line: To husky boys and yellow meal. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VERMONT FALL FEED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The perfect barnyard has a gate Last Line: "we never reach the middle mowing." Subject(s): Barnyards; Farm Life; Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Prairies; Pumpkins; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers; Plains VERMONT FARMING TOOLS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leakiest roof in all vermont Last Line: As dry as our insides. Subject(s): Farm Life; Machinery & Machinists; Mowing & Mowers; Tools; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers VERMONT MORGANS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I notice in my car, when nearing Last Line: He hands him out a morgan mare. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VERMONT WOOL CARDING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A-when we used to shear the sheep Last Line: The greeley hat and paisley shawl. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas VESPERS, by GARY SHORT Poem Source First Line: A linnet pulls a tuft of cowhair Last Line: The flames of a hundred asian poppies nodding red, %then the descending quiet Subject(s): Farm Life VIEW FROM DUFFY'S FARM, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The door is all but broken Last Line: A room whose door is broken Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Farm Life VILLAGE LIGHTS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Across the valley strange with dusk Last Line: And far and bleak the moon and mars! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life VINCENT, by MELISSA MORPHEW Poem Source First Line: If he could shed this husk Last Line: A golden pinwheel in a field %of lavender Subject(s): Farm Life VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Villius the wealthy farmer left his heir Last Line: That fourtie pounds serue not the farmers heyre. Subject(s): Farm Life; Inheritance & Succession; Money; Wealth; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs; Riches; Fortunes VISITING DAMARIS AT THE INFIRMARY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: After a lifetime filled with books Last Line: For me to kiss when it is time for me to go Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WAGON TRAIN MINSTREL, by ALICE SHEFLER MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I meant to stay and finish the plowing and Subject(s): Farm Life WAITING FOR OCTAVIAN, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: Alexandria danced and drank as though Last Line: What could be subtler than the aspic's bite? Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality WAITING FOR SOMETHING TO TURN UP, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why do you throw down your hoe by the way Last Line: "and take up your hoe, and move on!" Subject(s): Indolence; Farm Life; Work WAKING ON THE FARM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can remember the early mornings - how the stubble Subject(s): Morning; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WALK IN THE FOG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Familiar woods are strange with fog Last Line: And woods are sensible with light Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WALK IN THE FOG, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I like to walk with Last Line: Bluejay and crow Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WALKER ON THE BEACH, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Out on the beach the lonely figure walks Last Line: And has the secret knowledge none may share Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WARNING, by RON BLOCK Poem Source First Line: The jaybird says, 'put on your shoes Last Line: I'll have your whole sandwich!' Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life WARNING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Keep away from mirrors Last Line: Is an old woman's face Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WARNING 1957, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Unleash the fires within the earth Last Line: Breathe life back into lifeless clay Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WARNING TO WHODUNIT FANS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Text First Line: You like your murders gory when they're safely in a story Last Line: When you awake and find yourself with a murder on your hand! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WASHING SHEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's folks that look like other folks Last Line: There's nothing, sure, like washing sheep. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WASHING THE GRAIN, by YASMINE GOONERATNE Poem Source First Line: Round and round the year tilts Last Line: Out upon the wattles and dry grass Subject(s): Farm Life WATCHER, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I live alone above the lake Last Line: Watching %watching? Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WATERPOT, by GRACE NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: The daily going out Last Line: There's a waterpot growing %from her head Subject(s): Farm Life WE BOUGHT A FARM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: We bought a farm - but we bought more than land Last Line: Lives on forever with the living earth Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WE GO HOME, by A. MARY MURPHY Poem Source Last Line: To give her %things I might like Subject(s): Farm Life; Home WE LIVE IN THE LARGESS OF OUR NICKLE-DIME MOMENTS, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even adonis, that gored fertility boy Last Line: We will weep for in a coming world Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Farm Life; Harvest; Obituaries WE SHOULD HAVE WALKED TOWARD THE FARTHEST STAR, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Improper fractions; what is three times three? Last Line: But I was busy, so I could not teach! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WE, THE INHERITORS, by JAMES CHRASTA Poem Source First Line: These are the lands our sires Subject(s): Farm Life WEAKNESS, by BERNARD O'DONOGHUE Poem Source First Line: It was the frosty early hours when finally Last Line: Of the shocked boy's twenty-year-old jacket Subject(s): Farm Life; Sickness WEARINESS OF MEN, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother said when she was young Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers WEB OF WONDERS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I have assumed the world was made for me Last Line: I should give thanks that room was left for me Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WEDDING DRESS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Lize kept the dress for over fifty years Last Line: The wedding dress would fit her when she died Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WEDDING SERMON, by JAY ROGOFF Poem Source First Line: Deny the plow that furrows land. Division Last Line: Circle as I bring it to her finger Subject(s): Farm Life WEST TEXAS, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down in west texas where the sun Last Line: Ain't no place %for a colored %man to stay! Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Farm Life WESTERN KENTUCKY FARMER, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: He soaks his calloused hands Last Line: Of the finest kentucky home cooking Subject(s): Books; Farm Life; Labor And Laborers; Poetry And Poets WHAT A DAINTY LIFE THE MILKMAID LEADS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And merrily passes the time away Subject(s): Cows;farm Life; Agriculture;farmers WHAT IF THE WORLD STAYS ALWAYS FAR OFF, by LINDA GREGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if the world is taken from me? Subject(s): Farm Life; Greece; Agriculture; Farmers; Greeks WHAT IF THE WORLD STAYS ALWAYS FAR OFF, by LINDA GREGG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if the world is taken from me? Last Line: A woman. Canning when there's time. It will be %very cold soon. Already there are dark rains Subject(s): Farm Life; Greece WHAT MYTHS AND DREAMS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: This earth's a giant pudding stone Last Line: And makes new myths to light the dream Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHAT NOW SEEMS SILENT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: What music does the spinning spider hear Last Line: The swishing spider web as death appears - Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHAT SMITH KNEW ABOUT FARMING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There wasn't two purtier farms in the state Last Line: And leave agriculture alone -- and the browns. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Food & Eating; Harvest; Horticulture; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT THE ANIMALS PAID, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hampshire ewes standing in their wooden pens Last Line: In the farm way, I am writing this poem today Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT THE ANIMALS PAID, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hampshire ewes standing in their wooden pens Last Line: In the farm way, I am writing this poem today Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life WHAT THE FARMER SAW, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: John d. Rockefeller, he Last Line: Seemed as pleased as pleased could be. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Farm Life; Rockefeller, John Davison (1839-1937); Agriculture; Farmers WHEAT ELEVATORS (MINNESOTA), by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Castles, or titans' houses, or huge fanes Last Line: Or joseph stored egyptian corn away. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WHEN I WAS YOUNG, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That good river that flowed backward Last Line: The clocks, though, still pursue what they endlessly loved Subject(s): Farm Life WHEN IT'S TIME TO TAP, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Here's what you need when it's time to tap Last Line: A small boy hustling to hang the buckets up Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHEN LINDA BAKES A CAKE, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: When linda bakes, the very kitchen changes Last Line: Wearing her mother's apron, playing house Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WHEN THE COLTS ARE IN THE RING (AS RILEY WOULD SEE IT), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the fair time, the rare time, I can feel it Last Line: For the bloom is on the maiden and the colts are in the ring. Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Horse Racing; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants WHEN THE WORLD BU'STS THROUGH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where's a boy a-goin' Last Line: "clean -- plum -- through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Disasters; Earthquakes; Farm Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHEN THEY KILLED JIM LEE, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Source First Line: I loved the tales my grandsire told Subject(s): Farm Life WHERE THE CHILDREN USED TO PLAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old farm-home is mother's yet and mine Last Line: To the orchard where the children used to play. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Orchards; Past; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHICH ROAD?, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still green on the limbs o' the woak wer the leaves Last Line: Gaït o' walkèn, so smooth as an aïr-zwimmèn cloud Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants; Paths; Trails WHIRLIGIGS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two bearded men: one chops a log Last Line: Waving our arms to scare the crows away Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WHO DIE, LOVING THE GOOD EARTH, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: For yet a little while Subject(s): Farm Life WIFE, by PEGGY SHUMAKER Poem Source First Line: He leaves her on the farm, where doors don't lock Last Line: In mud as she crams white bolls in gunny sacks Subject(s): Farm Life WILD CAT MOUNTAIN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Wild cat mountain crouches in the catskills Last Line: If I could find the magic that would set him free %to prowl! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD GEESE, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Chill winds blowing Subject(s): Farm Life WILD GEESE FLYING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Pulled by some vast immeasurable tide Last Line: Shut out the hoarse, deep calls... The air is chill Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRIES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Strawberries should be eaten from a little tin bucket Last Line: I think I've always known that I couldn't go back - Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRY DAY, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: No house can hold me when wild strawberries Last Line: I cannot keep this wild strawberry day Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRY DAYS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Remember wild strawberry days Last Line: And sharp and sweet as remembering Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD STRAWBERRY JAM, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: In this gleaming jar of wild strawberry jam Last Line: That nobody owns! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILD THYME IN HILLSIDE PASTURES, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: They say this same sweet wild thyme blooms Last Line: The days come back on wild bees' wings Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WILLIAM CORBY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drive my cows to corby Last Line: When william corby's dead! Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WIND IN THE HOLLOW, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source Subject(s): Farm Life WINTER GARDEN, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Filigree of junco tracks Last Line: These tiny gleaners seek! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WINTER JOURNEY, by UWE-MICHAEL GUTZSCHHAHN Poem Source First Line: And I think Last Line: From their wooden boxes Subject(s): Farm Life WINTER MEMORY, by GYULA ILLYES Poem Source First Line: We ate you up, little pig Last Line: Under the smoke-laden, ash-filled sky Subject(s): Animal Rights; Animals; Farm Life; Pigs WINTER SETTLES DOWN, by MILDRED ANN HOBBS Poem Source First Line: The fields and hills are white tonight Subject(s): Farm Life WINTER SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH: 1, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Why do I think of lilacs? It must be Subject(s): Farm Life WINTER SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH: 2, by BEN H. SMITH Poem Source First Line: Lo! In this world god places side by side Subject(s): Farm Life WINTER TWILIGHT, by UNKNOWN+18 Poem Source First Line: The autumn days are past Subject(s): Farm Life WISH AT SPRING PLOWING, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: Spring plowing here has always turned up stones Last Line: And never know the dragon's teeth again! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WITCH HAZEL, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: From mustard gold to golden rod Last Line: Witch hazel's unexpected gold Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Witching Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas WITH EACH CLOUDED PEAK, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: What a conflict, he said Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Landscape WITHOUT, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: I never knew I was without Last Line: My father's arms, my father's voice Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life WO/MEN, by CHIQUI VICIOSO Poem Source First Line: Wo/men draped in black Last Line: Iron women, rock women Subject(s): Dominican Republic; Farm Life; Women WORKS AND DAYS, SELS., by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pieria is just north of mt. Olumpus in northern greece Last Line: Work guiltless before the deathless ones, sorting out the birds and avoiding excesses Subject(s): Farm Life WORKS AND DAYS: THE FARMER'S YEAR: THE SIGN OF THE PLEIADS, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first the pleiads, children of atlas, arise Last Line: Or beg at another's door, and none shall heed. Variant Title(s): Advice To Farmers Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WORKS AND DAYS: THE FARMER'S YEAR: WHEN THE CRANE FLIES SOUTH, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark, when you hear aloft in the clouds of the sky Last Line: For the coming of grey-husked spring and the season of rain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WORKS AND DAYS: THE FARMER'S YEAR: WINTER, by HESIOD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beware the month of lenaion - foul days Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter YGGDRASIL, by TIMOTHY MURPHY Poem Source First Line: I am the least leaf Last Line: Inconceivably %bigger than me Subject(s): Farm Life; Homosexuality YORK KIDNEY POTATOES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One farmer giles, an honest clown Last Line: "none but york kidneys does for mashing." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Potatoes; Agriculture; Farmers YOU TRIED TO TELL US, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Source First Line: The trail of tears almost forgotten Last Line: We would not listen Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life YOUNG FARM WOMAN ALONE, by FLORENCE ANTHONY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What could I do with a man? Last Line: This hoe that with each use grows sharper Alternate Author Name(s): Ai Subject(s): Farm Life YOUNG LAND CULTIVATION DEPARTMENT TECHNICIAN'S RECITATIVE, by MIYAZAWA KENJI Poem Source First Line: Again separating myself Last Line: All my helpless caresses and boundless love Subject(s): Farm Life ZEA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once their fruit is picked, Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers |
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