BARE, low, tawny hills With bluer heights beyond, And the air is sweet with spring, But when will the earth respond? Prairie that rolls for leagues, Dusky and golden-pale, Like a stirless sea of waves, Unbroken by ship or sail. The hollows are dark with brush, And black with the wash of showers, And ragged with bleaching wreck Of the ranks of the tall sunflowers. No cloud in the blue, no stir Save the shrill of the wind in the grass, And the meadow-lark's note, and the call Of the wind-borne crows that pass. Bare, low, tawny hills, With bluer heights beyond, And the air is sweet with spring, But when will the earth respond? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON BEING ASKED TO WRITE A POEM AGAINST THE WAR IN VIETNAM by HAYDEN CARRUTH THE LIFE SO SHORT by EAMON GRENNAN A BIT OF SKY by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ARMAGEDDON by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON ENVOYS by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON READING WHITMAN IN A TOILET STALL by TIMOTHY LIU LINCOLN TRIUMPHANT by EDWIN MARKHAM |