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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MEADOWS Matches Found: 203 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 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War A BALLADE OF GREEN FIELDS; FOR F.W.M., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Beyond the compass of our sight Last Line: For distant fields are always green. Subject(s): Fields; Imagination; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Fancy 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 GUIDE TO THE FIELD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the wild pasture, this mile of strewn grasses Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A GYPSY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Can tute rakker romany? Last Line: To my old sweetheart in her springtime gown Subject(s): Fields;gypsies;singing & Singers;spring;towns; Pastures;meadows;leas;gipsies A HAPPY LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: O what a life is this I lead Last Line: With such a life as this to lead? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A MEADOW TRAGEDY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a meadow full of sunshine Last Line: And a song up in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A MORNING-PIECE, OR, AN HYMN FOR THE HAY-MAKERS, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brisk chaunticleer his matins had begun Last Line: And we'll dance to the tune of the stream. Subject(s): Fields; Labor & Laborers; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow on a line of flat rooftops beneath a sky of driven clouds Subject(s): Fields; France; Solitude; Southern Hemisphere; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Loneliness A PASTURE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rough pasture where the blackberries grow Last Line: Well, maybe -- I'm not city-bred. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A RIOT OF MEADOWS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meadows! Deep-reasoning meadows, philosopher friends Last Line: I shall have you happily still wherever I go. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ADVICE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, you two eyes, that have all night been sleeping Last Line: Come into the meadows, where the lambs are leaping. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas AN APRIL DAY, by ROSS LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: In from the blue a galaxy of sound Last Line: God minds us all upon an april day. Subject(s): April; Birds; Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 BEGGAR'S LUCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Where did you sleep in the country, lad? Last Line: And drove me away with stones.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Environment; Fields; Homeless; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BEGINNING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon drops one or two feathers into the fields. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fields; Moon; Love; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BERKSHIRE HILLS, by WILL H. SKALING Poem Text First Line: Sunrise o'er berkshire hills, hush Last Line: Sedge in meadows, river lush. Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BERRYING TIME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! For the fields and meadows Last Line: That ripen in july. Subject(s): Fields; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BEYOND THE MEADOWS OF JERSEY, by WILLIAM WOODFORD ROCK Poem Text First Line: Over the meadows and far away Last Line: Is my snug little home in jersey. Subject(s): Fields; New Jersey; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BOHEME, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of fields in blossom-this grey rain! Last Line: With all our conquering visions ranged below. Subject(s): Bohemian Forest, Europe; Fields; Spain; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife Last Line: Chorus Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BY RAIL THROUGH THE EARTHLY PARADISE, PERHAPS BEDFORDSHIRE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fishermen among the fireweed Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CALIFORNIA POPPY FIELDS, by EMMET PENDLETON Poem Text First Line: The poppy fields are mine today Last Line: I feel a king, the world, my throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Happiness; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Joy; Delight CALL OF THE OPEN, by LAURA E. BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: Away from the din of the city Last Line: Nature and peace and god. Subject(s): Desolation; Fields; Rivers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CASTILE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, land of castile, you do raise me up Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips CHRISTMAS SONNET TO E. C. S., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When days were long, and o'er that farm Last Line: Yet with your blossom from one root it grew. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Christmas; Fields; Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908); Summer; Nativity, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CIRCUS AT NIGHT, by MADELEINE AARON Poem Text First Line: The weathered tent on this star-gilded night Last Line: And singing crickets claim the field again. Subject(s): Circus; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CLEANING OUT THE SULLER IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time to clean the suller out Last Line: "it's pretty clean down suller." Subject(s): Cattle; Fields; Spring; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CLEARING AT DAWN, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fields are chill; the sparse rain has stopped Last Line: Blown by the wind slowly scatters away. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas COMMUNION, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: A man saw a soft brown, newly-cut, wheat field Last Line: He felt the strength of god rise up in him. Subject(s): Faith; Fields; God; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Wheat; Belief; Creed; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers CONCERNING HOES, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: You have heard of that over-worked man with the hoe Last Line: Nor ripens life's harvest with penitent tears. Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers preach to us if we will hear Last Line: To nourish one small seed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flowers; Lilies; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CORN, by RUTH LECHLITNER Poem Text First Line: Here at our side Last Line: Let us walk softly . . . Softly. Subject(s): Corn; Fields; Graves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones CORN-GRINDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "butterflies, butterflies" Last Line: "butterflies, away!" Subject(s): Butterflies;fields;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs COWSLIPS AND LARKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear it said yon land is poor Last Line: Are many a sunny mile from here. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 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 DURHAM FIELD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lordings, listen, and hold you still" Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;durham, England;england;fields;" English;pastures;meadows;leas EPISODES OF HAYING TIME, by HOLGER CHRISTENSEN Poem Text First Line: Under clear blue skies in the month of june Last Line: But I pray that I might be more like dad! Subject(s): Fields; Labor & Laborers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers FAIRLIE GLEN, by ROBERT TENNANT Poem Text First Line: O, there's a glen, a bonnie glen, the bairnies lo'e it dearly Last Line: But spring will come, and then they'll sing in yon wee glen fairlie. Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FALL FIELDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sober-golden fields lie soaked in light Last Line: Turns paler blue above such tapestry. Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Light; Rugs; Seasons; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Carpets FARM WOMAN, by BERNICE CAREY FITCH Poem Text First Line: The children finally in bed, each bare Last Line: To join her man in sleep's well-earned repose. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FETCHING COWS, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black one, last as usual, swings her head Subject(s): Cows; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELD AND FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you look down from the airplane you see lines Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 QUILT, by HATTIE B. TERRILL Poem Text First Line: Late summer sends her mystic haze Last Line: Makes dark gray ribbon for the binding. Subject(s): Fields; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELDS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: I am sister of the virgin field Last Line: Rearing the tawny grain. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELDS TOOK ON..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fields took on their final Last Line: With vanishing... Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Fields; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIFTH AVENUE-SPRING AFTERNOON, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's running over with color Last Line: Rises your face! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fields; Fifth Avenue, New York City; Flowers; Primroses; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FOREST AND FIELD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green, watery jets of light let through Last Line: Its final period was a kiss. Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Woods GENTIANS IN OCTOBER, by MARTHA H. HOLLINSHEAD Poem Text First Line: Fringed gentians in the meadow Last Line: Solace for the passing of the year. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GRASSHOPPERS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grasshoppers go in many a thrumming spring Last Line: He springs, that bends until they touch the ground. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 GREEN CLOISONNE, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: Now god be thanked for this stir from the south Last Line: So much divine expectancy. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fields; God; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Green fields and running brooks Last Line: Sing green fields and running brooks! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Fields; Streams; Creeks; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GROTESQUE, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: With the first light on the skyline came the rapping of the sickles Last Line: "and the fields with harvest teeming have forgot them all too soon!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Fields; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Serfs GROUND SENSE, by RODNEY JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have loved many women Subject(s): Death; Fields; Nature; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HARES AT PLAY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still Last Line: Sturts quick as fear, and seeks its hidden lair. Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Fields; Rabbits; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hares HARVEST SONG, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: A field of golden wheat there grows Last Line: Grind, o mill, keep grinding! Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Rain; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HAYING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rustic idyl of the ardent days Last Line: And all its face is odorous again. Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Summer; Sun; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HERE IN THIS PASTURE, by MABEL WARD RUDD Poem Text First Line: Here in this pasture where wandering sheep Last Line: Of a tender god. Subject(s): Fields; God; Sanctuaries; Sheep; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Variant Title(s): April In England Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem 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 HUNTER MIND, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Good luck, hunter mind, trailing through field Last Line: By flight of the plumaged implausible bird. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IDAHO JEWELS, by KENNETH B. PLATT Poem Text First Line: Grass is not green, I tell you, until you've seen Last Line: The wonder of your fields of living green. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN A PASTURE UNDER A CRADLED MOON, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hung between pinetops Last Line: From loss. Subject(s): Birth; Children - Lost; Fields; Loss; Child Birth; Midwifery; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN A WHEAT FIELD, by CHARLES DAVIS PLATT Poem Text First Line: A corn of wheat abides alone Last Line: We reap the fields where heroes lie. Subject(s): Fields; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN FIELDS OF SUMMER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rises Last Line: A lark bursts up all dew. Subject(s): Fields; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders fields the poppies blow / between the crosses, row on row Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flanders, Belgium; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Liberty; First World War IN SUMMER (2), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night lies down / in the field when the moon Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE FIELDS, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I look at lovely things which pass Last Line: Over the fields. They come in spring. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE MEADOWS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in the summer meadows Last Line: But death is in the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Fields; Life; Summer; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas INDIAN SUMMER, by N. R. BAKER Poem Text First Line: Over the treetops baring for winter Last Line: Marks time, marks time. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas INLAND SEAS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a majesty in fields of wheat Last Line: The beauty of an ocean night anew. Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Seashore; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Beach; Coast; Shore INTERMEZZO; PASTORAL: 7. IN THE MEADOWS AT MANTUA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But to have lain upon the grass Last Line: The meadow-grass at mantua! Subject(s): Fields; Mantua, Italy; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 KOROSTA KATZINA SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Yellow butterflies / over the blossoming virgin corn Last Line: All day shall come the rushing rain Subject(s): Butterflies;corn;fields;harvest;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 1. LORD CRASHTON, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joining sir ulick's at the river's bend Last Line: And curses all things from his easy chair. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Despair; Fields; Landlords & Tenants; Portraits; Property; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Possessions LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among those mountain-skirts a league away Last Line: Amongst whose watery stems the mallard feeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Fields; Islands; Mountains; Travel; Water; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips LIFE ON THE LAKES: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waters lap by the pier's green side Last Line: In ghostly sheath. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fields; Home; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips LOST ACRES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These acres, always again lost Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas LOWLAND MOOD, by MEREDITH JONES Poem Text First Line: When dawn raises a crimson banner Last Line: It would beat them against the moon. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 1. THE SCORNED TOWN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The green fields waver, break a space Last Line: A phantom never seen! Subject(s): Fields; Men; Railroads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Railways; Trains MEADOW-SAFFRON, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The meadow is pretty but poisonous in the fall Last Line: This great field ill-flowered by the fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas MID-APRIL IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out his heavenly sallyport Last Line: Right here by uncle cully's. Subject(s): Fields; Spring; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas MOSS WAS A LITTLE MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: He put the halter round her neck - so moss caught his mare Subject(s): Animals;fields;horseback Riding;travel; Pastures;meadows;leas;journeys;trips MOWING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was never a sound beside the wood but one Last Line: My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mowing & Mowers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers MY MEADOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, it's still the loveliest meadow in all vermont Last Line: Maybe I have lived too long with the world Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plants; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Planting; Planters NEGLECTED PASTURES, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is a legacy of love Last Line: Picked out with drooping red lillies. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas NETTLES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was running in the field with the tall nettles Subject(s): Fields; Fights; Pastures; Meadows; Leas NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: THE FIELDS AT EVENING, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dew-light lingers yet Subject(s): Fields; Evening; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Sunset; Twilight OCTOBER, by HENRI DEWITT SAYLOR Poem Text First Line: There's a murmur in the meadow Last Line: For the pageantry of fall. Subject(s): Beauty; Fields; Gardens & Gardening; October; Pastures; Meadows; Leas OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: The way was footless up the steep Last Line: Our lady of tours. Subject(s): Fields; Soldiers; War; World War I; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War OLE BOSSIE COW, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Po' ole bossie cow's down in de marsh Last Line: A wee little bossie comes follerin' on behin'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Cows; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES Poem Text First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills Last Line: But when will the earth respond? Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains OUT IN THE FIELDS [WITH GOD], by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little cares that fretted me Last Line: Out in the fields with god. Variant Title(s): Cares Subject(s): Fields; Religion; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Theology OUT IN THE FIELDS [WITH GOD], by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little cares that fretted me Last Line: Out in the fields with god. Variant Title(s): A Song From Sylvan Subject(s): Fields; Religion; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Theology PASTORAL: 3, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now standing on this hedgeside path Last Line: And sings with wood and field. Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Woods PASTURE LANDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green pastures,' said the psalmist Last Line: And bend me at his feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PASTURES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: They are too lost in yesterday, - too dull Last Line: And flocks for lonely pastures where they wait. Subject(s): April; Fields; Memory; Stars; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PASTURES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: That grass is tender, soft and sweet Last Line: Lie down to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PAUSE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy needed / to stop by the road Last Line: Across the fields. Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Home; Roads; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips PETER'S FIELD, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knows he who tills this lonely field Last Line: As a man unto his friend. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PLANTING THE MEADOW, by MARY MAKOFSKE Poem Text First Line: I leave the formal garden of schedules Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PLOUGHING THE ROUGHLANDS, by HELEN DUNMORE Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the four-wheeled drive crawler Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PLOWING, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an old woman plowing a field Last Line: For the crumb of bread its rock would yield. Subject(s): Fields; Life; Plowing & Plowmen; Pastures; Meadows; Leas POMEGRANATE SONG, by ANDRE GIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still for a long time you should seek Last Line: That we pop near the fire. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Happiness; Pomegranates; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Joy; Delight; Songs POPPY FIELDS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say this poppy blooms so red Last Line: To rise, a poppy field of france? Subject(s): Fields; Poppies; Pastures; Meadows; Leas QUESTION IN A FIELD, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pasture, stone wall, and steeple Last Line: Or the horrible beautiful kind? Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas RAISING HUBBARD SQUASH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could only spin a top Last Line: Till I can raise a hubbard squash. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Plantation Life; Vegetables; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas RETURN TO EARTH, by INA DRAPER DEFOE Poem Text First Line: I am the cool, green earth where lovers lie Last Line: To suckle once and then return to me. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas RURAL PROGRESS; OR WE'RE LIVIN' 'MOST IN TOWN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: So you're sorry for us fellows Last Line: Are a-livin' 'most in town. Subject(s): Camping; Country Life; Fields; Towns; Camps; Summer Camps; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SEA MEADOWS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I love all meadows Last Line: Reaching to the sea. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SEPTEMBER, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Crickets are making / the merriest din Last Line: September is here. Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 SITTING IN A FIELD ON A WINDY DAY, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surge of leaves; the grass leanng all one way Subject(s): Fields; Wind; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SLIM FOOT, by LAURA BENET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a meadow Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SONG OF RENEWAL: 1, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked near sunset through wet fields Last Line: "the bones that you would bury there will never turn to dust." Subject(s): Death; Fields; Graves; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones SONG OF RENEWAL: 2, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the fields when morning freshened Last Line: "and ruined spring renews her flower and anxious eyes are once more glad." Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fields; Memory; Cadavers; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SONG OF THE HOP FIELDS, by INA DRAPER DEFOE Poem Text First Line: A harvest moon rose gracefully ... Last Line: Where dawn revealed a wall of green the night found string and props. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SONG OF THE WHEAT, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have sung the song of the droving days Last Line: That say: 'thank god for wheat!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fields; Singing & Singers; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SUBURBAN'S LIFE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Across his field the farmer trudged Last Line: For the child of the city and land. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Suburbs; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 BATTLEFIELDS, by MAX EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: You never saw the summer dance and sing Last Line: Slave to no thought softer than her own. Subject(s): Fields; War; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE BEANFIELD, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beanfield in blossom smells as sweet Last Line: To battered footpaths crossing o'er the fields. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE BLOODY FIELD OF WHEOGO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The moon rides high in a starry sky Last Line: So we'll take the boy instead!' Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;fields;grief;hunting; Pastures;meadows;leas;sorrow;sadness;hunters THE BRIGHT FIELD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the sun break through Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE BUCK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've tracked you up the wind, my buck Last Line: You gallant little beast! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Fields; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters THE CABBAGE FIELD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both taine and the inland english child Last Line: Anything but the sea? Subject(s): Cabbage; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray! Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE DESERTED PASTURE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the stony pasture Last Line: To pitch their tents therein. Subject(s): Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Perseverance; War; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE DESOLATE FIELD, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vast and grey, the sky Last Line: Yearning silently over me. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem 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 FAIRY IN THE MEADOW, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came, stepping over the tall grasses Last Line: Why was he afraid of me? Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Fields; Humanity; Supernatural; Elves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FALLOW FIELD, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The sun comes up and the sun goes down Last Line: When I give my gold to the golden-rod. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIELD OF PINKIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely eve! As loath to quit a scene Last Line: And all shall walk in lightthe light from heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Fields; Peace; Pinkie, Battle Of (1547); Scotland; Warwickshire, England; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIELD-PATH, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tripping down the field-path Last Line: Lost is now to me! Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIELDS, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though wisdom underfoot Last Line: Small as forget-me-nots. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I take my walks abroad Last Line: And there the wonder ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Fields; Friendship; God; Longing; Praise; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIELDS OF EVEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O stiller than the fields that lie Last Line: May find a god to love him! Subject(s): Fields; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FLEECE: BOOK 1, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The care of sheep, the labours of the loom Last Line: To listen; and to view the joyous scene. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters THE FOOTBALL CASABIANCA, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy stood on the football field Last Line: "they get some gasoline!" Subject(s): College Sports; Fields; Football; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE GRASS COMES, by A. JEAN HOLMES Poem Text First Line: The grass, the glad green grass Last Line: Has washed away the brown. Subject(s): April; Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE GREEN CORNFIELD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth was green, the sky was blue Last Line: And listened longer than I did. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE HARVEST, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Summer, the alchemist, achieves once more Last Line: Must blossom swiftly with great shocks of grain. Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LABORER, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: We have a bed, and a baby too Last Line: Only time! Subject(s): Family Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Time; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers THE LABORER, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the yoke, with arrow and share near by Last Line: In sunless fields of erebus forlorn. Subject(s): Fields; Labor & Laborers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers THE LARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood knee-deep within a field of grain Last Line: Make subtle music for my brooding ear. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Life; Singing & Singers; Sky; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks; Songs THE LAST LULLABY, by HENRY BATAILLE Poem Text First Line: Sing sweetly, killore Last Line: With a black magpie on a bough. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Singing & Singers; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Songs THE LAST MOWING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a place called far-away meadow Last Line: I needn’t call you by name Variant Title(s): Mowing Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Mowing & Mowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers 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 LEAVES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dead leaves of the year are down! Last Line: Can the world end in a night? Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LICORICE FIELDS AT PONTEFRACT, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the licorice fields at pontefract Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Love; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Under the lifting ridges of smoke Last Line: Is comeis come! Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE TIMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Hickory and walnut, the thicket's mass Last Line: Thro' open glades to splashing feet. Subject(s): Fields; Plums; Prairies; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Plum Trees; Plains; Paths; Trails THE MEADOW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Leafy with little clouds, the sky Last Line: While babbling nonsense on the way. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE MEADOWS IN SPRING, by EDWARD FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Tis a dull sight / to see the year dying Last Line: The meadows again! Variant Title(s): Old Song;for A New Year's Eve;song Of The Year Subject(s): Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE MOCKING BIRD, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heat is overwhelming Last Line: And from the cactus the call of the mocking-birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Fields; Mockingbirds; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE MORNING FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked from my window Last Line: I thought them dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fields; Morning; Sleep; Waking; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE PILGRIM OF THE UPLAND MEADOWS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diverging trails we climb Last Line: Or else a quiet stone. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE POPLAR FIELD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade Last Line: Have a being less durable even than he. Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Fields; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE POPPY FIELDS OF SERGEY, by KATE SLAUGHTER MCKINNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh! The poppy fields of sergey Last Line: Where the blood-red poppies grow. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fields; Poppies; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SCARECROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poet's Biography First Line: He strides across the grassy corn Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Scarecrows; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SILVER WAIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: When russet wagons left the lammas field Last Line: An angel walking by a silver wain. Subject(s): Fields; Knights & Knighthood; Plowing & Plowmen; Silver; Wagons; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SKYLARK, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside Last Line: Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Environment; Fields; Larks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE STUBBLE FIELD, by ETHEL GREEN RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: The land lies silent to the west Last Line: Giant toad-stools in the sun. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pity the poor planter when the blast Last Line: Bugs of uncommon shape. Subject(s): Fields; Insects; Nature; Plague; Plantation Life; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry & Poets; Walking; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SWEET-BRIAR, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet-briar flowering Last Line: Held the trusting heart of a little child. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Daisies; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SWING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was like floating in a blessed dream to roam Last Line: So wide a sky, so great a tree. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Fields; Home; Trees; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE VIELD PATH, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here oonce did sound sweet words, a-spoke Last Line: Wer here so long as I can mind. Subject(s): Fields; Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails THE WALL-FLOWER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wall-flower - the wall-flower Last Line: Thou art the flower for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones THE WAYSIDE WEEDS, by ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE Poem Text First Line: A dreamy day with opalescent sky Last Line: And kinship of all floral things assert. Subject(s): Fields; Weeds; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THIS LONELY ACRE, by BERT HENDERSON Poem Text Last Line: And this lone acre shall return to dust. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, riding in a car, in wisconsin Last Line: And the ditches along the road half full of a private snow Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM THE TRAIN, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O why do you walk through the fields in gloves Last Line: Missing so much and so much? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Obesity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie Last Line: I guess an' fear. Variant Title(s): To A Field-mouse Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mice; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO MEADOWS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have been fresh and green Last Line: Your poor estates alone. Variant Title(s): Honeysuckle: Sweetness Of Disposition;to Meddowes Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO PRIAPUS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in thy green enclosure here Last Line: Let these to enter and to steal be bold! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Horses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO THE FONT-GEORGES, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent fields where I was glad Last Line: Silver flow'rs. Subject(s): Children; Fields; Love; Childhood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES LORD HALIFAX: SALUTE TO PROPERTY, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But who advances next, with cheerful grace Last Line: Her fleets were freighted, and her fields were till'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Subject(s): Fields; Property; Wealth; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Possessions; Riches; Fortunes 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. IN A SCOTCH-FIR WOOD, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a scotch-fir wood Last Line: Go hence, and in the centuries come again! Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TOWN AND COUNTRY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers are blooming in the woods, the Last Line: "when the sun goes down, if I can chase myself to town, to see the movie shows." Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Towns; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TRANSFORMATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterflies are buttercups, wind-blown Last Line: Are butterflies flight-weary, seeking rest. Subject(s): Butterflies; Fields; Insects; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs TWO IN THE CAMPAGNA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder do you feel today / as I have felt since, hand in hand Last Line: Of finite hearts that yearn. Subject(s): Fields; Love; Rome, Italy; Pastures; Meadows; Leas VERMONT WILD FLOWERS IN AUGUST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild flowers all vermonters love Last Line: The chickory and lady's lace. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Mountain Life - Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 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 WATERCOLOR OF GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHAT IT TAKES, by DOROTHY F. RAND Poem Text First Line: Here lies the harvest at your feet Last Line: Ripe proof of friendly service through the year. Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHAT MATTER?, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure I'm sorry the crathur was scared, but I Last Line: Ah what matter? Sure what should it matter? What matter, what matter at all? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fields; Pets; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHEAT FIELDS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an honest dignity in wheat Last Line: And for a fertile yield breathe thanks to god. Subject(s): Bread; Fields; Food & Eating; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHITE BIRCHES, by MARY BRADLEY BRAMHALL Poem Text First Line: Against the upper darkness - the dark pines Last Line: On this morning of silver rain. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Fields; Pine Trees; Rain; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WIDER FIELDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young men drift away from home; they Last Line: The-hole! Subject(s): Farewell; Fields; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Parting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips WILD ASTERS, by SARA V. PRUESER Poem Text First Line: They fly a silent retreat Last Line: With blossoms rare and select. Subject(s): Asters; Colors; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WILD FLOWERS, by GERTRUDE A. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Over the fields gay with violets, tulips and fern Last Line: Knowing that life will be short, but if merry -- amen! Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WITHOUT REGRET, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights, by the light of whatever would burn Last Line: Baskets of wicker, baskets of straw. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas |
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