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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 light—the 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 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 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