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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SONG, by JONES VERY Poem Explanation Poet's Biography
First Line: When I would sing of crooked streams and fields
Last Line: By hill and grove, by field and stream delayed.
Subject(s): Country Life
First Line: When I would sing of crooked streams and fields
Last Line: By hill and grove, by field and stream delayed.
Subject(s): Country Life
When I would sing of crooked streams and fields,
On, on from me they stretch too far and wide,
And at their look my song all powerless yields,
And down the river bears me with its tide;
Amid the fields I am a child again,
The spots that then I loved I love the more,
My fingers drop the strangely-scrawling pen,
And I remember nought but nature's lore;
I plunge me in the river's cooling wave,
Or on the embroidered bank admiring lean,
Now some endangered insect life to save,
Now watch the pictured flowers and grasses green;
Forever playing where a boy I played,
By hill and grove, by field and stream delayed.
Other Poems of Interest...
A COUNTRY LIFE by RANDALL JARRELL
THE TARIFF by GEORGE HENRY BOKER
A DRIVE IN THE COUNTRY by TED KOOSER
THERE IS ALWAYS A LITTLE WIND by TED KOOSER