Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BLUE-GRASS PLOT, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE


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First Line: O the blue-grass plot, the blue-grass plot
Last Line: The grass-plot over the river.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Relatives


O THE blue-grass plot, the blue-grass plot,
Where I played in the days long gone,
Where the sweet grass grew 'neath the morning dew
And my life was a summer morn.
The wild-rose spread o'er the porch over head
And the swallows chirped sweet in their flight,
But the birds are fled and the roses are dead
And I'm far from the old home to-night.

O, the blue-grass plot, in the old back lot,
How I long to be there once more,
With the colts in the shade the elm tree made,
And my mother's form at the door.
Where the brook brawled along, with its sweet glad song,
And I played with my dog in his glee,
'Till I thought all the gleam of the sun and the stream
Was made for my dog and for me.

O, the blue-grass plot, in the old back lot,
How I long for your cool, quiet shade!
When the sun went down and the crescent crown
Of the moon 'rose over the glade,
How we romped on the sheen of your dewy green
With a shout and a laughter wild,
'Till called to our beds where three weary heads
Soon slept the sweet sleep of the child.

O, the blue-grass plot, the blue-grass plot,
O, the mem'ry of childhood days!
'Tis bright as light in a cheerless night—
'Tis sweet as the hearth-stone blaze.
It comes with the thrill of a form that is still
And a voice now hushed forever,
To point our soul to that better goal—
The Grass-plot over the River.





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