Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HARVEST TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poet's Biography First Line: Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain Last Line: Then sleeps and dreams for a year again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Metaphor; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Similes | ||||||||
PILLOWED and hushed on the silent plain, Wrapped in her mantle of golden grain, Wearied of pleasuring weeks away, Summer is lying asleep to-day, Where winds come sweet from the wild-rose briers And the smoke of the far-off prairie fires; Yellow her hair as the goldenrod, And brown her cheeks as the prairie sod; Purple her eyes as the mists that dream At the edge of some laggard sun-drowned stream; But over their depths the lashes sweep, For Summer is lying to-day asleep. The north wind kisses her rosy mouth, His rival frowns in the far-off south, And comes caressing her sunburnt cheek, And Summer awakes for one short week, Awakes and gathers her wealth of grain, Then sleeps and dreams for a year again. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVING YOU IN FLEMISH by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR THE CLOUDS OF MAGELLAN (APHORISMS OF MR. CANON ASPIRIN) by NORMAN DUBIE NOT WRITING POEMS ABOUT CHILDREN by CAROLYN KIZER MAROON BELLS by KENNETH REXROTH THINKING OF A RELATION BETWEEN THE IMAGES OF METHAPHORS by WALLACE STEVENS MY FATHER'S GARDEN by DAVID WAGONER AND AS IN ALICE by MARY JO BANG A RED, RED ROSE by ROBERT BURNS A CRY FROM AN INDIAN WIFE by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON |
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