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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MIDNIGHT AT THE FARM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS
First Line: A distant sheep-dog barks: beyond the bank
Last Line: Flung him, that gave and took, her blasphemies.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers
First Line: A distant sheep-dog barks: beyond the bank
Last Line: Flung him, that gave and took, her blasphemies.
Subject(s): Animals; Death; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers
A DISTANT sheep-dog barks: beyond the bank
A panting engine vomits soot and spark,
Toils to the level, hears its couplings clank,
And burrows, shrieking, through the tunnelled dark.
A brown thing buffets on the cheating pane,
Wins through the lattice, suns itself, and lies
Shrivelled and singed, with throbbing wings that stain
The cloth to dusty yellow ere it dies.
Late doves are calling there across the lane,
And woo to gladness mid the orchard trees,
Where yesternight a mother, mad and fain,
Flung Him, that gave and took, her blasphemies.
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