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Subject: PEASANTRY
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First Line: My heart has flown on wings to you, away
Last Line: A sad life deep below the depth of words.
Subject(s): Love; Peasantry; Poverty


AFTER TENIERS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A quiet curve of sombre brown water
Last Line: In the deep'ning gloom of the evening time.
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Evening; Peasantry; Wine; Sunset; Twilight


AFTERNOON, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Some one is coming to call
Last Line: Down in the daffodil leaves —
Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns
Subject(s): Household Employees; Peasantry; Servants; Domestics; Maids


AS OF OLD, by BERNARD M. KIRKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: A misty eye and a wasted cheek
Last Line: And mingle blood with groans.
Subject(s): Peasantry


AT THE DEATH OF A MONGOLIAN PEASANT, by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees turned around as if to quarrel with him
Last Line: And some simple wretchedness unto bliss.
Subject(s): Cold; Death; Mongols And Mongolia; Peasantry; Salvation; Dead, The


AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life
Last Line: The farmers in the sky and in the nebulae
Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life
Last Line: That the farmer sows in the skies and the nebulae
Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds And Shepherdesses


BYELORUSSIA, SELS., by MOISHE KULBAK                       
Subject(s): Peasantry


COUNTRY MAN, SELS., by GEORGE FAREWELL                       
Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Men; Peasantry


FOR A MISSING IN ACTION, by JOHN BALABAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hazed with heat and harvest dust
Last Line: As the leaf-man rises and stumbles to them.
Subject(s): Death; Peasantry; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The


FRENCH PEASANTS, by MONK GIBBON    Poem Source                    
First Line: These going home at dusk
Subject(s): Peasantry


LAST OF THE PEASANTRY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What does he know? Moving through the fields
Last Line: Within is dark and bare, the grey ash %is cold now, blow on it as you will
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Peasantry


MADONNA OF THE MARKETPLACE, by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sweet lavender - pray who will buy?'
Last Line: Madonna of the marketplace.
Subject(s): Markets; Peasantry; Supermarkets


NORMAN PEASANTS, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Those workers in the fields and heat
Last Line: To meet the fading stars, each day.
Subject(s): Normandy, France; Peasantry; Wellesley College


PARNELL, by DAVID CINTINO    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the queen's cellar at eltham
Last Line: You needed, what needed you
Subject(s): Ireland; Peasantry


PEASANT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: It's the mixture of peasantry
Last Line: That birds descend from.
Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Peasantry; Optimism


PEASANT, by LEONARD WOLF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six times faster than the fool can weep
Last Line: It is not I,' his country cousin yelled, %'who cut the gentle jugulars of sheep!'
Subject(s): Peasantry


PEASANT GREETING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No speech; the raised hand affirms
Last Line: To his long grave under the wave of wind %that breaks continually on the brittle ear
Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S.
Subject(s): Peasantry


PEASANT; A PRAYER TO THE POWERS OF THIS WORLD, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All those years that you ate and changed
Last Line: Make me %I am bringing up my children to be with you
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Peasantry


PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting
Last Line: History staggers in their wake. %the peasants watch them die
Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii


POSTCARD: 2, by MIKLOS RADNOTI    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six miles from here
Last Line: To drink clouds
Subject(s): Peasantry


POUR UN JEUNE CHALAMOUN QUI SE VEND DANS LA RUE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Powerful white teeth
Last Line: Give my soul, just to take the money and not give my soul
Subject(s): Capitalism; Money; Peasantry; Trade


RIO VERDE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rio verde, rio verde!
Last Line: No royal power hath he!
Subject(s): Peasantry; Rio Verde (river), Spain


SILVER SLEEVES, by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR    Poem Text                    
First Line: She was a queen with silver sleeves and ermine
Last Line: -- she is content!
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Peasantry; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes


SO, FROM THE MOULD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Gaze perplexedly!
Subject(s): Peasantry


THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT; TO AN UNKNOWING GOD, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Much wonder I - here long low-laid
Last Line: The mercies thou wouldst show!
Subject(s): Peasantry; Sickness; Illness


THE BENCH OF BOORS, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In bed I muse on tenier's boors
Last Line: Cat-naps take in pipe-bowl light.
Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Peasantry; Teniers, David, The Younger, (1610-1690)


THE KING AND THE PEASANT, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: Once, at the self-same point of time
Last Line: "once only in a hundred years!"
Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Heaven; Peasantry; Sin; Paradise


THE LAST MAN, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, in our familiar streets, the day
Last Line: Little hands of silver on his brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Variant Title(s): The Last Man; For Vivian Schatz
Subject(s): Harvest; Peasantry


THE PEASANT POET, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He loved the brook's soft sound
Last Line: A poet in his joy.
Subject(s): Peasantry; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology


THE PEASANT'S APOLOGY, by FORD MADOX FORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Down near the earth
Last Line: Bitterness and blackness from the earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox
Subject(s): Grief; Peasantry; Sorrow; Sadness


THE PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting
Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Second World War


THE RUNAWAY, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ya, I'm a runaway wife. God's truth, which I don't deny
Last Line: I'll see you in hell before I'll go back—my girl is american born.
Subject(s): Escapes; Peasantry; Police; Russia; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Fugitives; Soviet Union; Russians


THE SALT SONG, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: How salt the tear!
Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A.
Subject(s): Hunger; Pain; Peasantry; Russia; Suffering; Misery; Soviet Union; Russians


THE SINNER OF WAKEFIELD: THE YEOMAN AND PEASANTRY OF OLD ENGLAND, by ROBERT GREENE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Master mannering, stand aside
Last Line: For well thou hast deserved reward and favour.
Subject(s): Peasantry


THE WORM IN THE EAR, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If peasants had written they would have ceased to be peasants
Last Line: Chin up? Ready?
Subject(s): Peasantry; Writing & Writers; Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976); Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890)


THEOTOKOS, by INGEMAR LECKIUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Peasant girl in grief-woven mantle,
Last Line: Like gentle tappings at the temple door...
Subject(s): Peasantry


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. AT MENTONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Why speak ye not, ye beautiful lands and seas
Last Line: Why utterest not the voice we long to hear?
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Earth; History; Mankind; Peasantry; Graveyards; Dead, The; World; Historians; Human Race


UNTITLED LITTLE VERSES ..., by NORMAN DUBIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The water is green. The two boats out at a distance
Last Line: Of a field beside the green, winter sea.
Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Life; Peasantry


WORM IN THE EAR, by LARRY LEVIS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If peasants had written they would have ceased to be peasants
Last Line: The cold comes on. %chin up? Ready?
Subject(s): Peasantry; Writing And Writers