|
|
|
Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER FORTY YEARS, by MAMIE A. MELOY
First Line: The shining, friendly cottonwoods
Last Line: Beneath their changeless prairie sky.
Subject(s): Canadian River; Cottonwood Trees; Graves; Pioneers; Time; Tombs; Tombstones
First Line: The shining, friendly cottonwoods
Last Line: Beneath their changeless prairie sky.
Subject(s): Canadian River; Cottonwood Trees; Graves; Pioneers; Time; Tombs; Tombstones
The shining, friendly cottonwoods
Along my loved Canadian
Still gracious spread their welcome shade
As when my father's toil first made
His prairie acres rich with grain.
Past weathered mounds of last year's straw
Unripened, bearded wheat still bends;
The plow still turns; the hoe still shines;
Grass-deep, the mower whirrs and whines;
The oat its green and silver blends.
Their fields remain, their prairie tamed,
Shut in with fence lines they first drew,
Bound fast with nets of road they laid;
The schoolhouse, church, and town they made
Endure for generations new.
Along my loved Canadian
The men alone, are gone; they lie
Where cottonwoods shine overhead
In patient rows of neighboring dead --
Beneath their changeless prairie sky.
Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!
Other Poems of Interest...
THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL
SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS
THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER
THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS
NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH
ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON
ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS
ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL
AN EARLY PIONEER by MAMIE A. MELOY