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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE HEART'S RETURN, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When darkened hours come crowding fast Last Line: Folding his happy sheep and knowing all his tasks are done. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Shepherds & Shepherdesses | |||
WHEN darkened hours come crowding fast, A thought—and all the dark is past. For I am back a boy again, Knee-deep in heading barley in a Mendocino glen. I can not ever be so sad But one thing still will make me glad— That hid spring in the Suisun hills: My heart keeps going back to it thru all the earthly ills. How often when the brood of care Would hold me in a hopeless snare, My soul springs winged and away, Remembering that wild duck's nest above Benicia bay. Or when night finds me toiling still, I am back again on the greening hill, A shepherd boy at set of sun, Folding his happy sheep and knowing all his tasks are done. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOVING SHEPHERDESS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE SHEPHERD by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON A TIMOROUS SHEPHERD by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDS by EDWIN MARKHAM THE GREEN SHEPHERD by LOUIS SIMPSON AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2 by CESAR VALLEJO THE STORY THE SHEPHERD TELLS THE SHEEP by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE SHEPHERD, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE |
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