Classic and Contemporary Poetry
GROWING RICH, by ALICE CARY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why are you pale, my nora? Last Line: Are all upon my heart. Subject(s): Farm Life; Wealth; Agriculture; Farmers; Riches; Fortunes | ||||||||
AND why are you pale, my Nora? And why do you sigh and fret? The black ewe had twin lambs to-day, And we shall be rich folk yet. Do you mind the clover-ridge, Nora, That slopes to the crooked stream? The brown cow pastured there this week, And her milk is sweet as cream. The old gray mare that last year fell As thin as any ghost, Is getting a new white coat, and looks As young as her colt, almost. And if the corn-land should do well, And so, please God, it may, I'll buy the white-faced bull a bell, To make the meadows gay. I know we are growing rich, Johnny, And that is why I fret, For my little brother Phil is down In the dismal coal-pit yet. And when the sunshine sets in th' corn, The tassels green and gay, It will not touch my father's eyes, That are going blind, they say. But if I were not sad for him, Nor yet for little Phil, Why, darling Molly's hand, last year, Was cut off in the mill. And so, nor mare nor brown milchcow, Nor lambs can joy impart, For the blind old man and th' mill and mine Are all upon my heart. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ALL LIFE IN A LIFE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS FOUR POEMS ABOUT JAMAICA: 3. A HAIRPIN TURN ABOVE READING, JAMAICA by WILLIAM MATTHEWS IMAGINE YOURSELF by EVE MERRIAM THE PROPHET by LUCILLE CLIFTON I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD' by KENNETH REXROTH LAST VISIT TO THE SWIMMING POOL SOVIETS by KENNETH REXROTH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR AS A YOUNG ANARCHIST by KENNETH REXROTH A SPINSTER'S STINT by ALICE CARY |
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