Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE FIELDS OF EVEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography First Line: O stiller than the fields that lie Last Line: May find a god to love him! Subject(s): Fields; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Pastures; Meadows; Leas | ||||||||
O STILLER than the fields that lie Beneath the morning heaven, And sweeter than day's gardens are The purple fields of even! The vapor rises, silver-eyed, Leaving the dew-wet clover, With groping, mist-white hands outspread To greet the sky, her lover. Ripples the brook, a thread of sound Close-woven through the quiet, Blending the jarring tones that day Would stir to noisy riot. And all the glory seems so near A common man may win it When every earth-bound lakelet holds A million stars within it. A common man, who in the day Lifts not his eyes above him, Roaming the fields of even through May find a God to love him! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD by ROBERT BLY THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES by ROBERT BLY QUESTION IN A FIELD by LOUISE BOGAN THE LAST MOWING by ROBERT FROST FIELD AND FOREST by RANDALL JARRELL AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON IN FIELDS OF SUMMER by GALWAY KINNELL A CHRISTMAS CHILD by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY |
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