Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A SILVER BIRCH, by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY First Line: I never knew until I crossed the prairie Last Line: For now at last I see. Subject(s): Frontier & Pioneer Life; Prairies; Trees; Plains | ||||||||
I never knew until I crossed the prairie The value of a tree; Of shade forevermore shall I be chary For now at last I see, With eyes that looked on miles and miles of plain land, Dusty and hot and dry, Acres and acres of lonely golden grain land Reaching from sky to sky. I come to stand beneath your singing branches, Of trees the faery queen, To live within the glen your shade enhances, A lover of your sheen. Your beauty shakes my heart like purple thunder Upon a mountain peak, For leaf and branch and bole an awesome wonder Have grown, I cannot speak. I never knew until I crossed the prairie The value of a tree; Of shade forevermore shall I be chary For now at last I see. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LEFT-HANDED POEM by JAMES GALVIN NO COMPLAINTS; FOR ROBERT GRENIER by ANSELM HOLLO POINT OF ROCKS, TEXAS by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE PRAIRIE HOUSES by BARBARA GUEST AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL by KATHARINE LEE BATES THE PRAIRIES by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT TO MAKE A PRAIRIE by EMILY DICKINSON THE PRAIRIE-GRASS DIVIDING by WALT WHITMAN SYMPHONY OF THE SOIL by EVA K. ANGLESBURG ILLINOIS FARMER by BEULAH JACKSON CHARMLEY |
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