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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FARMERS Matches Found: 470 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "PUSHAN, GOD OF PASTURE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "pushan, god of golden day" Last Line: And we follow ever more! Subject(s): Farm Life;fields;slavery; Agriculture;farmers;pastures;meadows;leas;serfs A CANARY AT THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Folks has be'n to town, and sahry Last Line: A high-priceter cage 'n that! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Canaries; Farm Life; Music & Musicians; Agriculture; Farmers A COUNTRY GOD, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When groping farms are lanterned up Last Line: And summer not to come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A FAIR FARMER, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fannie's going in for farming Last Line: That I'll be her husbandman! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A FARM IN WESTERN MINNESOTA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I look at childhood, I see the yellow rose bush Last Line: Was work to do, but no one learned how to say goodbye Subject(s): Farm Life; Minnesota; Agriculture; Farmers A FARM PICTURE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn Last Line: And haze and vista, and the far horizon fading away. Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A FARMHOUSE DIRGE, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will you walk with me to the brow of the hill, to visit the farmer's wife Last Line: When the heart grows weak, then hope grows strong, but stronger than hope is death. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A FENCECROW IN EARLY MARCH, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last snowdrifts Subject(s): Winter; Farm Life; Fences; Agriculture; Farmers A FULL HARVEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seems like a feller'd ort'o jes' to-day Last Line: On'y jes' waste it all on me and you! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers A HEIFER CLAMBERS UP, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A HIDDEN LIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proudly the youth, sudden with manhood crowned Last Line: Arose and died upon the listener's ear. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Education; Family Life; Farm Life; God; Love; Quiet Life; Dead, The; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers A HIGHLAND VILLAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Clear shining after the rain Last Line: Clear shining after the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Farm Life; Highlands Of Scotland; Agriculture; Farmers A HINT TO THE FARMERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farmers, whose income, day by day Last Line: "the public will find railing!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Kisses; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A MEMORY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is just the weather, a wet may and blowing Last Line: "god send fine weather to carry home the sheaves!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Fathers; God; Memory; Piety; Trust; Weather; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A NOON LULL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Possum in de 'tater-patch Last Line: Drapt in de turnip-hole, chasin' f'um de cow! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Opossums; Weasels; Agriculture; Farmers; Possums A PLACE IN KANSAS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in kansas, a friend found Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers A REVERIE, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside a spreading elm, from whose high boughs Last Line: And broken hedge-flowers sweet, mark his impetuous way. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers A SERIOUS STEP LIGHTLY TAKEN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between two burrs on the map Last Line: And forty-five presidents Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Farm Life; Heritage; Heredity; Agriculture; Farmers A SHORT'NIN' BREAD SONG - PIECED OUT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behine de hen-house, on my Last Line: (chorus) Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Singing & Singers; Agriculture; Farmers A TRAIN WINDOW, SELS, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: The gride and screech of snorting locomotives Last Line: Who are the lovers there? Subject(s): Farm Life; Railroads; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Railways; Trains; Journeys; Trips A VERMONT AUCTIONEER, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er an auction bill I see Last Line: He lived and died an auctioneer. Subject(s): Farm Life; Vermont; Villages; Agriculture; Farmers A VERMONT KITCHEN, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That lady some call 'mrs. Looz' Last Line: No stranger, though a tramp, could stifle. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers A VERMONT PASTURE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have to work your tillage land Last Line: Upon your pastur ledges. Subject(s): Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers A VOICE FROM THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is my dream to have you here with me Last Line: Our way toward home across the dewy fields. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Voices; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers A WALGETT EPISODE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun strikes down with a blinding glare Last Line: Like a tangible thing upon walgett town. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Farm Life; Rivers; Agriculture; Farmers A WRONG INFERENCE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, old uncle abe, if your tidings are true Last Line: "twas er ox an' er 'oman dat made de plow go." Subject(s): African Americans; Farm Life; Plowing & Plowmen; Progress; Negroes; American Blacks; Agriculture; Farmers A YARD-FENCE AND FLOWER-BEDS, by DELLA MCDANIEL Poem Text First Line: Old, junked machinery Last Line: With a yard-fence and flower-beds. Subject(s): Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Repairing; Agriculture; Farmers; Mending A YEOMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man that at the wheatstack side Last Line: And all his life has been alive. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Farm Life; Landscape; English; Agriculture; Farmers AFTER WINTER, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He snuggles his fingers Last Line: "runnin' space . . . " Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sunday morning - service done Last Line: "that's hagricultural distress!" Subject(s): Farm Life; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers AGRICULTURE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the rain can't stand up straight, but once Last Line: But a window sailing through the night Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Farm Life; Horses; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers AN EARLY PIONEER, by MAMIE A. MELOY Poem Text First Line: Against the soft, dark velvet of this case Last Line: That spread from nineveh to now! Subject(s): Farm Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers AN EXPLANATION, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look heah! 'splain to me de reason Last Line: Oh! ...!— Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Towns; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ANOTHER REAPER, by WILLIAM H. ARMSTRONG III Poem Text First Line: Go down,my son to the ploughing Last Line: When blood is on the plain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods APPLE-PARING NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The biggest basket 'round our place Last Line: That weekly apple-paring night. Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers APRIL IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ver purpureum horace loved Last Line: Up here at jim mcnally's. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Peace; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers AS THE TEAM'S HEAD BRASS, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the team's head brass flashed out on the turn Last Line: After the ploughshare and the stumbling team. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; World War I; Agriculture; Farmers; First World War AT BREAD LOAF INN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Above the woody summits of these hills Last Line: And man with nature climb the slope to heaven. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Heaven; Nature; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Paradise AT HUSKING TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At husking time the tassel fades Last Line: At husking time. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers AT NIGHTFALL, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like held lanterns, wavering Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers AUCTIONEER'S SONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come up from the field Last Line: Bid up! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Auctions; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: The farmers in the sky and in the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AUTUMN PLOUGHING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More than the beauty of summer Last Line: Though his ploughshare lay me low. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Growth; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers AVARO, A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fast by the trent (whose gods this fable tell) Last Line: So pride foretels we ne'er can need relief! Subject(s): Envy; Farm Life; Greed; Knights & Knighthood; Pride; Story-telling; Agriculture; Farmers; Avarice; Cupidity; Self-esteem; Self-respect BACK TO THE FARM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll buy a little farm somewhere,' the old Last Line: They turn their eyes to the old home farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Old Age; Retirement; Weariness; Agriculture; Farmers; Fatigue BANKING UP VERMONT HOUSES, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house without a suller wall Last Line: They know you've finished banking up. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BARBED WIRE, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It aint no easy way / to find the endpiece of wore Last Line: Won't never get this damn fence done Subject(s): City & Town Life - Utah; Farm Life; Inventions & Inventors; Agriculture; Farmers BARE HANDS, by ALICE G. HARVEY Poem Text First Line: A lad with eager, anxious eyes Last Line: To pay for a place to sleep. Subject(s): Cities; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Urban Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BARN FIRE, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It starts, somehow, in the hot damp Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BEET FARMER, by MARK MIRICH Poem Text First Line: It is not weariness that lines this face Last Line: And tear a quiet courage all apart. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BIG MEN, by WINFIELD S. HIIGEL Poem Text First Line: Red acres in travail call us now Last Line: And the call is for big men! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BLACK CROSS FARM, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: After full many a mutual delay Last Line: The secret of the black cross back with us. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Crosses; Emptiness; Farm Life; Home; Secrets; Agriculture; Farmers BLASTING ROCKS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cutting corn is late Last Line: And squandered forty plunks. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers BLESSINGS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: God bless the little orchard brown Last Line: Many a night and morn! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Blessings; Farm Life; God; Nature; Agriculture; Farmers BLUEPRINTS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From a long way off I can see the cross- Last Line: Be the planner's. This one touched my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Amish; Farm Life; Memory; Mennonites; Agriculture; Farmers BRIGHT LEAF, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like words put to a song, the bunched tobacco leaves Subject(s): Tobbaco Farms; Women - Employment; Children; Farm Life; Southern States; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.) BUILD SOIL, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why tityrus! But you've forgotten me. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BURNING BRUSH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most farms, in any place you please Last Line: To burn a rousing batch of brush. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire-weeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers BURNING THE FIELDS, by LINDA BIERDS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the windless late sunlight of august, Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers BURSTING RAPTURE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the physician to complain, Last Line: That’s what a certain bomb was sent to be Subject(s): Farm Life; Atomic Bomb; Agriculture; Farmers BUTTERMILK CHANNEL, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pray tarry, nancy blossom' Last Line: Fore the sun went down! Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; New York City - Colonial Period; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Journeys; Trips BY NATURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it could be, it would be seven o'clock Last Line: Who will be there for you I promise, always. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Love - Loss Of; Agriculture; Farmers CANE: NOVEMBER COTTON FLOWER, by JEAN TOOMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boll-weevil's coming, and the winter's cold Last Line: Beauty so sudden for that time of year. Variant Title(s): November Cotton Flower Subject(s): Cotton; Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CATERPILLAR '60', by CRANSTON STROUP Poem Text First Line: The sun / is burning clouds up over lame mare hill Last Line: "the wash: a trifle for tomorrow." Subject(s): Farm Life; Tractors; Agriculture; Farmers CITY WIFE, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almost before the sun has touched the fields Last Line: Till over the hill the horses slowly climb. Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers COMMERCIAL LEECH FARMING TODAY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although it never rivaled wheat, soybean Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers CONTRABAND, by INA H. BEAN Poem Text First Line: Lovelier than the glow Last Line: The prairie's contraband. Subject(s): Farm Life; Plants; Agriculture; Farmers; Planting; Planters CORNPICKER POEM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sheds left out in the darkness Last Line: Is waiting, its its empty gas cans around it Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRY LORE: SOWING DAYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sow your wheat in muddy weather Last Line: In the dust your barley sow Subject(s): Farm Life;plants; Agriculture;farmers;planting;planters COUNTRY MUSIC, by FLEDA BROWN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I feel so lean Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Fleda Subject(s): Country Music; Divorce; Farm Life; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRY SUMMER, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the rich cherry, whose sleek wood Last Line: Morning and evening in the corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers COUNTRYSIDE CAMP, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gypsy man and gypsy woman drinking tea Subject(s): Animals; Camping; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Camps; Summer Camps; Agriculture; Farmers COURAGE, by CAROLINE CAIN DURKEE Poem Text First Line: Metallic sky, dull coppered slate Last Line: A whistle on the lips that cannot smile. Subject(s): Courage; Farm Life; Valor; Bravery; Agriculture; Farmers CUTTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer 'moves right up the line' Last Line: "and ""set,"" with father, ""'round the hill." Subject(s): Cattle; Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers CYCLE, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: The sun's hot rays reach to the earth Last Line: True progeny of the sun. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Miracles; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas DA FARMER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: I don'ta care eef all dees town Last Line: I don'ta care! Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers DAKOTA SHOWERS, by A. W. RANSOM Poem Text First Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining wheat and corn Last Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining corn and wheat. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Rain; South Dakota; Wheat; Agriculture; Farmers DESERTED FARMS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A foretimes, fruitfulness and tilth were here Last Line: Or toward the peopled cities set your face. Subject(s): Farm Life; Memory; New England; Agriculture; Farmers DIGGING POTATERS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of course, you'll pick the dustiest day Last Line: And dream of saratoga chips. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Potatoes; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers DISHWATER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slap of the screen door, flat knock Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers DREAM AND REALITY, by O. E. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: The farmer stood by the cottage door Last Line: On the rock-ribbed hills of maine. Subject(s): Dreams; Farm Life; Sons; Summer; Nightmares; Agriculture; Farmers DRIED OUT, by GWENDOLEN HASTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This place was the first home we ever had Last Line: We was to have! The roses by the door! Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Agriculture; Farmers DRIVING HOME THE COWS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The creek flames and the stunted willows all Last Line: Black stands the barn against a flawless sky. Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers EARLY DAYS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've read the settlers, bless their souls Last Line: To borrow jest a carpet tack. Subject(s): Borrowers & Lenders; Farm Life; Vermont; Loans; Agriculture; Farmers EARTH DWELLER, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was all the clods at once become Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers EBENEZER-GRAMS: 1. EBENEZER'S PROBLEM, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: With unkel eben weepin' Last Line: And learn him how ter fly! Subject(s): Death Valley; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ECLOGUE: FATHER COME HWOME, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother! Be the teaties done? Last Line: Zoo I shall goo up out o' the waÿ o' the waggon. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Fathers; Food & Eating; Homecoming; Winter; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers ECLOGUE: THE 'LOTMENTS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zoo you be in your groun' then, I do zee Last Line: If I could get a little patch o' ground. Subject(s): Duty; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Property; Social Protest; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Possessions ECLOGUE: THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good morn t'ye, john. How b'ye? How b'ye? Last Line: Or I must goo to workhouse, I do fear. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Fences; Poverty; Property; Seasons; Social Protest; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions ECLOGUE: THE TIMES, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, tom, how be'st? Zoo thou'st a-got thy neame Last Line: You'll goo vor wool, an' then come hwome a-sheär'd. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Economics; Fables; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Pigs; Politics & Government; Social Protest; Wages; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Boars; Hogs; Salaries ECLOGUE: TWO FARMS IN WOONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You'll lose your measter soon, then, I do vind Last Line: Why then we sartainly must starve. Good night! Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunger; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers EMERGENCY HAYING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Coming home with the last load I ride standing Last Line: To the fields where they can only die Subject(s): Farm Life; Hay & Haymaking; Agriculture; Farmers EMILIA, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halfway up the hemlock valley turnpike Last Line: Deep in fancies of a fairy bride. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers EMPTY BARN, DEAD FARM, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Houses are incidents, barns four-square and real Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers END OF SUMMER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An agitation of the air Subject(s): Farm Life; Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers EVICTED, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New gray hairs are adorning my venerable Last Line: Alarm; and we shall join the paupers, out at the county farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Modesty; Poverty; Agriculture; Farmers EXMOOR VERSES: 2. SATURN, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From my farm, from her farm Last Line: The planet saturn burned. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Farm Life; Kisses; Agriculture; Farmers FABLE: THE FARMER AND THE HORSE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a vain world, and all things show it Last Line: But take the world as he shall find it.' Subject(s): Animals; Fables; Farm Life; Horses; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers FAREWELL TO THE FARM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coach is at the door at last Last Line: Good-bye, good-bye, to everything! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): A Child's Garden Of Verses: 40 Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM LIFE, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young the farmers' shacks Last Line: Times have changed—and every change seems always for the best! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM MOTHER, by ERMA MELLISH Poem Text First Line: Folks said that marthy'd never lived Last Line: Of small red feet upon the stairs . . . Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers FARM NIGHT, by SANDS-ROUX Poem Text First Line: Now, silence resting on the silvered hill Last Line: A thought which has a word that all may learn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Silence; Agriculture; Farmers FARM TABLEAU, by BETSY WINTER Poem Text First Line: Upon a farm, with soil of rust-red clay Last Line: Then turns and plods, with patient steps, toward home. Subject(s): Farm Life; Houses; Labor & Laborers; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers FARM WIDOW, by JESSIE HOLT Poem Text First Line: The green grain mocks me Last Line: By lantern light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Widows & Widowers; Agriculture; Farmers FARM WIFE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark as the spring river, the earth Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM-CIRCLE, by FRANK ERNEST HILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peter jersey walked this hill a hundred and hundred Last Line: Maybe I'm love of his work as well -- maybe I'm peter jersey, too. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARM-YARD SONG, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hill the farm boy goes Last Line: "murmuring, ""so, boss! So!" Variant Title(s): Evening At The Farm Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMER, by DORA MIELKE PERNOT Poem Text First Line: A man who loves the soil Last Line: Builds for him a life of fullness earned. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMER, by LUCIEN STRYK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seasons waiting the miracle Subject(s): Farm Life; Nature; Agriculture; Farmers FARMER WHIPPLE - BACHELOR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's a mystery to see me - a man o' fifty-four Last Line: To git a pair o' license fer to marry mary brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Single People; Agriculture; Farmers; Bachelors; Unmarried People FARMERS, by THEODORE OLSON Poem Text First Line: Farmers grow kindred to the soil they till Last Line: Warming to dim, great dreams of birth and god. Alternate Author Name(s): Olson, Ted Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I watch the farmers in their fields Last Line: Wisdom and discontent? Variant Title(s): Agricolae Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Love; Quarrels; Rain; Agriculture; Farmers; Arguments; Disagreements FARMERS, FALLING DOWN, by SUSAN WHEELER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the distance there are several trees Last Line: Sympathy the unruly sky parts now into flocks Alternate Author Name(s): Wheeler, Sue Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FARMING, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer drives his team afield, and Last Line: Things like these, he fails to smile and sing. Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains FEED, by RAYMOND KNISTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For danny whistling slowly Last Line: Then lean again to scoop up the swill. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FENCE WIRE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too tight, it is running over Last Line: Whether outside around, or in Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Agriculture; Farmers FERN HILL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Innocence; Nature; Time; Wales; Youth; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Welshmen; Welshwomen FIELD MAGIC, by DOROTHY DOW Poem Text First Line: A black velvet cow Last Line: Could be heaven, too! Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; Fields; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELDS OF THOUGHT, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: For him the walls are not finality Last Line: Food for her dark fidelity to light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FINALITY, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farm was lonely, set so far Last Line: Upon a bird! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FIRE CEREMONY, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl called out to her horse Subject(s): Fire; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FIRST BOOK OF ODES: 18. COMPLAINT OF THE MORPETHSHIRE FARMER, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the up-platform at morpeth station Last Line: As barren as her deck Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FLIES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fly sleeps on the field of a green curtain. I sit by my grandmother's side Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Grandparents; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers FOR JAN, WITH LOVE, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: John he comes to my house Last Line: Because john's red sow that fucker she died Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farm Life; Pigs; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs FOR MILAREPA, IN RUSE, ON PAPER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: These farmers dressed in gold and blue Last Line: In their pear tree will be forgiven. Variant Title(s): For Confucius, In Ruse, On Rice Paper Subject(s): Disdain; Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Scorn; Agriculture; Farmers FOR THE HOG KILLING, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them stand still for the bullet, and stare the shooter in the eye Last Line: By our hunger, by this provisioning, we renew the bond Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FORSAKEN FARMHOUSE, by LYDIA HAMMOND GALE Poem Text First Line: That grayed beam hewn from nearby lot Last Line: Whence all his brood saw life begun. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FOX FARM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the pasture a shire Last Line: Woman's neck. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Foxes; Horses; Wilderness; Agriculture; Farmers FRAGMENTS WRITTEN WHILE TRAVELING...A MIDWESTERN HEAT WAVE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: However lonely we were before / becomes unclear Last Line: By setting-free the soil Subject(s): Farm Life; Heat; Middle West; Oklahoma; Summer; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers; Midwest; Old Northwest; Central States; North Central States FREEDOM, NEW HAMPSHIRE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We came to visit the cow / dying of fever Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers FROM A BUS WINDOW IN CENTRAL OHIO, JUST BEFORE A THUNDER SHOWER, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cribs loaded with roughage huddle together Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Farm Life; Storms; Agriculture; Farmers FROM THE SOIL (TWO MONOLOGUES), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aham a mighty simple man and only Last Line: All over hill and dale. ... Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers GETTING THE MAIL, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk back / toward the frog pond, carrying Subject(s): Farm Life; Postal Service; Agriculture; Farmers; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen GETTING UP THE WINTER WOOD IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard a dozen farmers say Last Line: You wish you owned another stove! Subject(s): Farm Life; Forests; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods; Woodsmen GHAZALS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The alfalfa was sweet and damp in fields where shepherds Last Line: Two walls of bone, brain veering, bucking in fatal velocity? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farm Life; Fights; Imaginary Conversations; Agriculture; Farmers GLAD ACRE, by LEONE RICE GRELLE Poem Text First Line: They said he'd starve Last Line: A hundred-fold. Subject(s): Farm Life; Happiness; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight GOD AND THE FARMER, by FRANKLIN ERASTUS PIERCE Poem Text First Line: God sat down with the farmer Last Line: A toiler more old than toil. Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers GOD'S OWN, by MRS. L. J. HOWARD JR. Poem Text First Line: There's wondrous living beauty in all things loved by god Last Line: And his 'biding place, I'm certain, is my mississippi farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Mississippi; Agriculture; Farmers GOING CROSSLOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The man who says with solemn pride Last Line: "that ""wheel"" themselves to death." Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Migrant Labor; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Migratory Workers; Agricultural Laborers GOOSEFEATHERS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was twelve I sat by myself in the steamliner Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers GRAY; FOR A PICTURE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firelight gilds the patterns on the walls Last Line: And wonder who shall do the like again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Graves; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones GREASING BOOTS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To keep a feller's boots in trim Last Line: When settled weather struck your boots. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers GREEN MOUNTAIN IDYL, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honey I'd split your kindling Last Line: & my dove Subject(s): Farm Life; Mountains; Agriculture; Farmers; Hills; Downs (great Britain) GROWING RICH, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And why are you pale, my nora? Last Line: Are all upon my heart. Subject(s): Farm Life; Wealth; Agriculture; Farmers; Riches; Fortunes HAIL STORM, by JOHN COLMAN EVANS Poem Text First Line: We stood knee-deep among the corn Last Line: And found him hanging in the barn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Storms; Suicide; Agriculture; Farmers HARVEST, by GERTRUDE RYDER BENNETT Poem Text First Line: He spoke of harvest, pointed to the field Last Line: She smiled and brushed a happy tear away. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers HARVEST AND LIBERTY; BEFORE ELECTION, 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The harvest moon is waning Last Line: Until the work be done! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): American Civil War; Farm Life; Freedom; Harvest; U.s. - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty HARVEST TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain Last Line: Then sleeps and dreams for a year again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Metaphor; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Similes HAWSE WORK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stop! There's the wild bunch to right of the trail Last Line: Give me a day on the hawse work! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cattle; Cowboys; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HAY FOR THE HORSES, by GARY SNYDER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: He had driven half the night Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HAY-MEAKEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis merry ov a zummer's day Last Line: The vo'k in haÿ-vield all day long. Subject(s): Farm Life; Happiness; Hay & Haymaking; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight HIS SPINE CURVED JUST ENOUGH, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HOEING, by GARY SOTO Poet's Biography First Line: During march while hoeing long rows / of cotton Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HOP PICKING IN KENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Fine betsy the bunter from london Last Line: When they go hop picking in kent Subject(s): Farm Life;life; Agriculture;farmers HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy here Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HOW JOHN QUITE THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody on the old farm here but mother, me and john Last Line: As you'd admit, ef you could see the way the crops turns out! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Family Life; Farm Life; Seasons; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers HOW TO MAKE RHUBARB WINE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the patch some afternoon / in early summer, fuzzy with beer Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers HYMN FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF HARTFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, o god, the shepherd kings Last Line: Jehovah, god of all. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers I AM KEENLY DISAPPOINTED. I EAGERLY AWAIT, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Zug. / zumph. These words Subject(s): Farm Life; Comic Strips; Agriculture; Farmers ILLINOIS FARMER, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury this old illinois farmer with respect Last Line: Dream of illinois corn. Subject(s): Farm Life; United States; Agriculture; Farmers; America IMPERATIVE, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Undisturbed, and stubbornly repeating Subject(s): West (u.s.); Iowa; Farm Life; Southwest; Pacific States; Agriculture; Farmers IMPROVED FARM LAND, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall timber stood here once, here on a corn belt farm along the monon Subject(s): Deforestation; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN AN OLD APPLE ORCHARD, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind's an old man Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN THE CORNERS OF FIELDS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Something is calling to me Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN THE FARMHOUSE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eaves moan, / clapboards flap Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers IN THE PASTURE, by JORIE GRAHAM Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What am I supposed to put now Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers INLAND SEA-SHELL, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY Poem Text First Line: Flushed with the heat of endless homely chores Last Line: The laborer to the feast his harvest yields. Subject(s): Farm Life; Shells; Agriculture; Farmers; Conchology KICKING THE LEAVES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each fall in new hampshire, on the farm Last Line: Three of us sitting together, silent, in gray november Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers KNOWING THE WORST, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every morning john, the granger, looked Last Line: Surprise you with a chortle when you're looking for a groan. Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Fields; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas LARABELLE; CANTO FIRST, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a wide and far extended plain Last Line: Of johny green and charming larabelle. Subject(s): Farm Life; Frontier & Pioneer Life; Pioneers; Agriculture; Farmers LATE, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those perishing gentians splashed by moonlight and wind Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers LAYS THAT PLEASE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: In other days the poet's lays Last Line: Are those that grow in henneries. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers LI PO AND LAO TSE COME TO NEBRASKA, by CARL SANDBURG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make a dialy memo of your eggs Subject(s): Farm Life; Nebraska; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips LIBERATION, by WINIFRED GRAY STEWART Poem Text First Line: At midnight came a cool wind from the west, after days Last Line: The shadow of death has passed; now I can plant new seed in a living womb. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women; Agriculture; Farmers LIKE DE OLE MULE BES', by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some folks is so't o' pa'shal to de cattle roun' de Last Line: I so't o' like de ole mule bes'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Chickens; Cows; Dogs; Farm Life; Goats; Love; Agriculture; Farmers LINES WRITTEN IN THE DOG-DAYS; HOW HOT IT IS!, by WILLIAM WOTY Poem Text First Line: The sun now darts his fervid rays Last Line: How charming now, and cool it is! Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Oppression; Sun; Thirst; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers LOADING A BOAR, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were loading a boar, a goddamn mean big sonofabitch Last Line: Writing and found out john he was right. Subject(s): Farm Life; Pigs; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs LONGIN' FUR TENNESSEE (A LAMENT FROM YANKEE LAND), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, I'm longin' jes'er longin' fur a sight ob / tennessee Last Line: Fur er grabe in tennessee. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homesickness; Plantation Life; Sheep; Slavery; Tennessee; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs LOVE IN OCTOBER, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fields, the clouds, the farms and farming Last Line: These many loves would founder in that night. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Love; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers LUNDU, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight, if I sleep on this bank Subject(s): Farm Life; Rivers; Sugar; Agriculture; Farmers MAGIC, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We passed old farmer boothby in the field Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Maine (state); Farm Life; Boats; Landscape; Agriculture; Farmers MAGIC IN LITCHFIELD (DAIRY FARM), by PEARL LEITA PATTERSON Poem Text First Line: This hour the day slopes into dusk, as sky Last Line: The land that knows again new england calm. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers MAIZE IN NORWAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By an inn of wildest norway Last Line: As that cluster of waving corn. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Americans; Corn; Farm Life; Norway; Agriculture; Farmers MAKING SOAP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last thursday, down by slipshod hill Last Line: To make and own a tub of soap. Subject(s): Farm Life; Food & Eating; Mountain Life - Vermont; Soup; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers MAP, by GARY SYNDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hill, a farm, / a forest, and a valley. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MAPLE DAYS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON (20TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: Though nights be cold, yet soon on sunny Last Line: Old mother maple vivid patchwork lays. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MAPLE SYRUP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August, goldenrod blowing. We walk Subject(s): Farm Life; Graves; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones MARSHALL WASHER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are cowshit farmers, these new englanders Last Line: "and flagged aisles saturated with a century’s Subject(s): Cows; Farm Life; New England; Agriculture; Farmers MASTER OF NONE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The plastic safety card Subject(s): Air Travel; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MEMORY, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Spinning up dust and Subject(s): Memory; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MENDING BRUSH FENCE IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the spring the cattle moo Last Line: Of that old fence. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers MIDNIGHT AT THE FARM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text 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 MILKIN', by P. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: It was a sunburned farmer who was leaning on a plough Last Line: "'well, I told 'im there'd be milkin',' he remarked, and seized his plough" Alternate Author Name(s): P. Subject(s): Farm Life;labor & Laborers; Agriculture;farmers MINDEN HOUSE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twer when the vo'k wer out to hawl Last Line: There's now noo mwore a fanny deäne. Subject(s): Farm Life; Housekeeping; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MOOD INDIGO, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From the porch; from the hayrick where her prickled Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Farm Life; Longing; Agriculture; Farmers MORNING ON THE FARM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Get up, my lad! The sun is rising, it is a Last Line: Shoulder blades! Subject(s): Farm Life; Morning; Mothers & Sons; Youth; Agriculture; Farmers MORNING SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun on his face wakes him Last Line: Pierce a magician's box. Subject(s): Boys; Deer; Farm Life; Morning; Agriculture; Farmers MOUNTAIN FARM, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the agony of a mountain farm Last Line: All the night through an open and empty door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MR. HAMMOND'S PARABLE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a dreamer of the days Last Line: "he's studied out a patent churn!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dreams; Fables; Farm Life; Nightmares; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers MY FARM: A FABLE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within a green and pleasant land Last Line: Do thou the same, my wiser brother! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Fables; Farm Life; Nature; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers MY FATHER WAS A FARMER, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father was a farmer upon the carrick border, o Last Line: A cheerful honest-hearted clown I will prefer before you, o. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MY SABINE FARM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: My sabine farm, or, sooth to speak Last Line: My sabine farm! Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers MY SOUTH: 3. ON THE FARM, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I, missing the city intensely at that moment Subject(s): Farm Life; Southern States; Agriculture; Farmers; South (u.s.) NAMES OF HORSES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: All winter your brute shoulders strained against collars, padding Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers NEIGHBORS IN OCTOBER, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All afternoon his tractor pulls a wagon Last Line: Bagging gold for the cold days to come Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NIGHT FALLS ON THE BRIDGE, by SELDEN LINCOLN WHITCOMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sand, sand, sand Last Line: South dakota, nebraska. Subject(s): Farm Life; South Dakota; Agriculture; Farmers NORTHERN FARMER, NEW STYLE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dosn't thou 'ear my 'erse's legs, as they canters awaawy? Last Line: Proputty, proputty, proputty -- canter an' canter awaay. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Cynicism; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NORTHERN FARMER, OLD STYLE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wheer 'asta bean saw long and mea liggin' 'ere aloan? Last Line: Git ma my aale, I tell tha, an' if I mun doy I mun doy. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NOVEMBER CALF, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She calved in the ravine, beside Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers NOW THE SLOW DAWN, by BELLE TURNBULL Poem Text First Line: Now the slow dawn relentless along the prairie Last Line: Go out to the north mowing. Surely the dream will keep. Subject(s): Dawn; Farm Life; Sunrise; Agriculture; Farmers ODE FOR AN AGRICULTURAL CELEBRATION, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far back in the ages Last Line: And feeds the expectant nations. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers OLD CANADA; OR, GEE BUCK GEE, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country's goin' fast to ruin! Last Line: Ain't it a caution?—gee buck gee! Subject(s): Canada; Education; Farm Life; Progress; Canadians; Agriculture; Farmers OLD WINTERS ON THE FARM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have jest about decided Last Line: "groun'-hog's out and seed his shadder!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; February; Groundhogs; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodchucks OLD-FASHIONED VERMONT FLOWERS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I like vermont's old-fashioned flowers Last Line: To bloom around our woodhouse door. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers ON BUYING A MAINE FARM, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house should be white Last Line: To swing overhead. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Maine (state); Agriculture; Farmers ON MEETING FATHER GOOSE, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A gray old man, / as webbed as moss, Last Line: "you gol dern fool!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Agriculture; Farmers ON THE FARM, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There was dai puw. He was no good Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ON THE SALE OF MY FARM, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well-away and be it so Last Line: Seeking ache of memory here. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers OUR OLD VERMONT LUMBER WAGON, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A thing that often 'pears to me Last Line: Our old blue lumber wagon. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Lumber & Lumbering; Vermont; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Woodsmen OUT A-NUTTEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last week, when we'd a-haul'd the crops Last Line: Vrom copse a-nuttèn. Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Nuts & Nutting; Seasons; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers OX-CART MAN, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In october of the year, Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PADDING IT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hasing it out like niggers on a two and a / tanner sub Last Line: The journey to ballachulish, for this is the song of it. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Slavery; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Serfs; Journeys; Trips PALOUSE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chaff hovers like pollen Last Line: Spattered with stars. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PASSING AN ORCHARD BY TRAIN, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grass high under apple trees Last Line: To forgive me Subject(s): Bly, Robert (b. 1926); Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PAST-LIVES THERAPY, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They explained to me the bloody bandages Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; War; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery PASTORAL: 2, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yon upland slope which hides the sun Last Line: Men's thoughts must borrow rather than bestow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Persephone; Agriculture; Farmers; Proserpine; Proserpina PEA BRUSH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked down alone sunday after church Last Line: And since it was coming up had to come. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PICKEN O' SCROFF, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! The wood wer a-vell'd in the copse Last Line: The poor childern a-pickèn o' scroff. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers PICKERS, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day we were bent over, Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PICKING APPLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up there, boys, no time to dream Last Line: "we plumb forgot to salt the sheep." Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PICKING GRAPES IN AN ABANDONED VINEYARD, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picking grapes in the late autumn sun Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers PITCHING HAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's opposites, go where you will Last Line: Of pitching off and on. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers PLANTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I learnt soon after I was born Last Line: "no crows are working johnson's corn." Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers POEM, by MARY FERRELL DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: My father could not make a poem Last Line: He made a poem in living green. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers POEM TO ELIADES OCHOA AND CUARTETO PATRIA’S RENDITION OF “SALUDO COMPAY”, by VIRGIL SAUREZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The oxen cart driven to the sugar cane fields Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers POLLY CORTELYOU, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pretty polly cortelyou, / mistress of the ...' Last Line: Woo the farmer lasses! Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 3. OPPOSITION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Four farmers seen through an open window falling asleep Last Line: "that letter fly between her knees."" they are drunk." Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Omens; Reproduction; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Mating POPPIES IN THE WHEAT, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along ancona's hills the shimmering heat Last Line: Lithe poppies ran like torchmen with the wheat. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Variant Title(s): Poppies On The Wheat Subject(s): Farm Life; Poppies; Agriculture; Farmers PORTRAIT OF MY FATHER, by BONNIE D. ELKIN Poem Text First Line: Man of the soil, an ageless man Last Line: A farmer's field of grain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers; Agriculture; Farmers POSTCARD, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days are cubes of light Last Line: Some days I go looking for the sky Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Nebraska; Sky; Agriculture; Farmers PRAIRIE FOLKS: SETTLERS, by HAMLIN GARLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Above them soars a dazzling sky Last Line: Behind the snarling plough. Subject(s): Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains PRAIRIE PICTURES, by T. W. STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: I cannot sing of mountain peaks capped by eternal snow Last Line: Before the sable angel rings the curtain of the day. Subject(s): Farm Life; Peace; Pictures; Agriculture; Farmers PRAYERS AND SAYINGS OF THE MAD FARMER, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is presumptuous and irresponsible to pray for other people. A Last Line: Grown immortal in his mind Subject(s): Farm Life; Prayer; Agriculture; Farmers RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It hain't no use to grumble and complane Last Line: W'y, rain's my choice. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Wet Weather Talk Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Rain; Weather; Agriculture; Farmers READING IN PLACE, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a poem that starts with a couple Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers REDFIELD FARM, MICHIGAN, by HERBERT BUCKLEN BRADY Poem Text First Line: At dawn the ragged sun - glints splash the morning - glories' lips Last Line: "oh god, our country, our land for always!" Subject(s): Beauty; Farm Life; Love; Mourning; Agriculture; Farmers; Bereavement RETURN, by WILMA CRITTENDEN Poem Text First Line: They who quit the soil with hopes swung high Last Line: As strong hands close again on rusting plow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming; Agriculture; Farmers REUBEN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That very time I saw, (but thou couldst not) Last Line: In henly meditation, bullet free. Subject(s): Farm Life; Guns; Hens; Agriculture; Farmers REVELATION 20:11-15, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a farmboy who had drowned that wednesday Last Line: We were amazed. Subject(s): Boys; Death; Drowning; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers RIDING HORSE TO CULTIVATE IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hottest seat in any state Last Line: This riding horse to cultivate. Subject(s): Farm Life; Horseback Riding; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers RIDING THE BUS IN MIDWINTER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: If a barn could loosen itself Subject(s): Buses; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers ROGATION DAYS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the orchards, under Subject(s): Farm Life; Italy; Agriculture; Farmers; Italians ROOTS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call it our craziness even Last Line: Call it anything Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers RUNAWAY, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now after bob had fed the cattle Last Line: Westward again, and was gone forever. Subject(s): Farm Life; Travel; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips SAINT FRANCIS AND THE SOW, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bud / stands for all things Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Saints; Agriculture; Farmers SAXON HARVEST HEALTH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's to the plow that furrowed Last Line: The blessing of sheaves of grain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers SAYINGS OF HENRY STEPHENS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you get enough money Subject(s): African Americans; Racism; Farm Life; Coal Mines & Miners; Springfield, Illinois'; Strikes; Negroes; American Blacks; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Agriculture; Farmers; Labor Disputes; Lockouts SCHOOL, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old hezekiah leaned hard on his hoe Last Line: "he said: ""to hoe." Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Farm Life; Meriden Academy, New Hampshire; Agriculture; Farmers SELF-REJECTED, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plow not nor plant this arid mound Last Line: Spare your trouble. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism SELLING A COW IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whoa! Whitey; morning, neighbor bell Last Line: They're passing not to come again. Subject(s): Animals; Cows; Farm Life; Trade; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers SEPARATION, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well my cadillac now that the hog herding has begun Last Line: Just where our lovers die Subject(s): Absence; Farm Life; Iowa; Pigs; Separation; Isolation; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs SERFS, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Winter has planted the fields black with crows Last Line: To make an earth that can be made a hell. Subject(s): Birds; Dirt; Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers SHALL VERMONTERS RAISE SHEEP?, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see the boston papers say Last Line: Until there's more demand for sheep. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SHORT STORY, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather killed a mule with a hammer Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SHYNESS OF THE MUSE IN AN ALMOND ORCHARD, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gray-green husks are opening. The wasps Last Line: But not that I was here, that he was lonely Subject(s): Farm Life; Solitude; Agriculture; Farmers SOME ASHES DRIFTING ABOVE PIEDRA, CALIFORNIA, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is still one field I can love Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SOME GRASS ALONG A DITCH BANK, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SOMETHING FOR HOPE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the present rate it must come to pass Last Line: But spes alii agricolam ‘tis said Subject(s): Farm Life; Hope; Agriculture; Farmers; Optimism SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We bore him through the golden land Last Line: Are dreaming of the spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; Day; Death; Farm Life; Grief; Harvest; Hope; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONNET TO A PLOW-WOMAN OF NORWAY, by MARGARET TOD RITTER Poem Text First Line: Deep-bosomed, stalwart-limbed, superbly made Last Line: She lifts a brief intoxicated glance. Subject(s): Farm Life; Women; Agriculture; Farmers SONNET: 2, 1, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That boy, the farmer said, with hazel wand Last Line: The pokeberry spit purple on my hand? Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SOUTHERN AGRARIAN POET, by MARY B. WARD Poem Text First Line: Kaleidoscopic, turning, turning Last Line: And antaeus-like takes strength from soil. Subject(s): Farm Life; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers SOUTHERN COMFORT: A GENTLEMAN, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evenings / the sky turns blood Last Line: Or lost. Subject(s): Farm Life; Slavery; Agriculture; Farmers; Serfs SOUTHERN FARM HOUSE, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hardened and sinewed by the summer sun Last Line: And all their somber years of silent grief. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers STABLE TALK, by RAYMOND KNISTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have sweat our share Last Line: Tomorrow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers STONE ARABIA, by MARK WUNDERLICH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The horses bisect the field Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SUITE TO APPLENESS: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the quonset shed unloading the fertilizer Last Line: Losing shape, into a thick green slime and jelly. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fruit; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers SUMMER TIME ON BREDON, by HUGH KINGSMILL LUNN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis summer time on bredon Last Line: The cattle then are sick. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Hugh Variant Title(s): Poem (after A.e. Housman) Subject(s): Bredon Hill; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers SWINEHERD, by EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all this is over,' said the swineherd Alternate Author Name(s): Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean Subject(s): Farm Life; Retirement; Agriculture; Farmers SYMPTOMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm not a-workin' now! Last Line: I'm not a-workin' now! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Idleness; Labor & Laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence; Work; Workers TAKING AWAY THE BANKING, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When march winds carried prophecies of june Last Line: When all the hills of god kept holiday. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Farm Life; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers TALE: 3. THE GENTLEMAN FARMER, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gwyn was a farmer, whom the farmers all Last Line: She rules a mistress, and she reigns a wife. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TALL NETTLES, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tall nettles cover up, as they have done Last Line: Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THANK GERARD, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Cascade: rain torrential rain Subject(s): Rain; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THAT'S VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If any stranger thinks vermont Last Line: Or boom! Bing! Bang! Wow! Wang! And zip! Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Mountain Life - Vermont; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers THE 'TRUE VERMONTER', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis said the true vermonter's gait Last Line: Is thunderation on a guess. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Fields; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE AFTERNOON NAP, by CHARLES GAMAGE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: The farmer sat in his easy chair Last Line: Fast asleep were they both, that summer day! Variant Title(s): A Picture Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Sleep; Agriculture; Farmers THE AGRICULTURAL SHOW, FLEMINGTON, VICTORIA, by FRANK WILMOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lumbering tractor rolls its panting round Last Line: Quiet lakes and milking sheds; 'fares please, fares please.' Alternate Author Name(s): Maurice, Furnley Subject(s): Exhibitions; Farm Life; World's Fairs; Expositions; Agriculture; Farmers THE BALER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You tourist composed upon that fence Last Line: And half-feathered sparrows, whipped by a bleeding snake Subject(s): Farm Life; Hay & Haymaking; Agriculture; Farmers THE BEAN EATERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair Last Line: Tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Farm Life; Old Age; United States; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; America THE BIRTHPLACE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here further up the mountain slope Last Line: And now her lap is full of trees Variant Title(s): The Birthday Subject(s): Farm Life; Birth; Holidays; Home; Agriculture; Farmers; Child Birth; Midwifery THE BISHOP'S SEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the see, the see, the bishop's see" Last Line: Shall come to the wealthy bishop's see Subject(s): Clergy;death;farm Life;love; "priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;dead, The;agriculture;farmers; THE BITING INSECTS, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The biting insects don't like the blood of people who dread dying Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACK FACED SHEEP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruminant pillows! Gregarious soft boulders! Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortality; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACKBERRY PICKER, by CHRISTINE SLOAN Poem Text First Line: Just as the sun begins to tint Last Line: And makes his simple trade. Subject(s): Blackberries; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE BLACKBIRD AND THE THRUSH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's my idee,' a blackbird said Last Line: "and a parrot said: ""so do I." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Birds; Blackbirds; Fables; Farm Life; Parrots; Thrushes; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers THE BOBBIN-WINDER, by JOSEPHINE ELIZABETH ARCHER Poem Text First Line: I saw time sitting on a stool Last Line: And a thing of beauty wrought. Subject(s): Farm Life; South Dakota; Agriculture; Farmers THE BROKEN GROUND, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The opening out and out Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE BULL-ROARER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I only saw my father's face in butchery Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE CARTER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, I be a carter wi' my whip Last Line: The heavy lwoad do slowly ride. Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Trucks & Trucking; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight THE CASTLE-BUILDER, by JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It happened on a summer's day Last Line: Cow, calf, and farm—all swam away! Subject(s): Fables; Farm Life; Allegories; Agriculture; Farmers THE CHILD AN' THE MOWERS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O. Aye! They had woone child bezide Last Line: Aye! The zwath-flow'r's a-killed by the zun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Farm Life; Mowing & Mowers; Death - Babies; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers THE COLT AND THE FARMER, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, corinna, if you can Last Line: A living death, from year to year.' Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Charm; Farm Life; Horses; Women; Agriculture; Farmers THE COMMON A-TOOK IN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! No, poll, no! Since they've a-took Last Line: Vrom all the housen round. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fences; Memory; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE COTSWOLD FARMERS, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes the ghosts forgotten go Last Line: No ghostly harvester. Subject(s): Cows; Fairies; Farm Life; Ghosts; Supernatural; Elves; Agriculture; Farmers THE COUNTRY LOVERS; OR, ISAAC AND MARGET GOING TO TOWN, by GEORGE SMITH Poem Text First Line: Come! Marget, come! - the team is at the gate! Last Line: They'll meet us ere we leave the narrow way. Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE CUCUMBER, by NAZIM HIKMET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow is knee-deep in the courtyard Last Line: It hasn't let up all morning Alternate Author Name(s): Ran, Nazim Hikmet Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DANCER, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dancer mended sheep and tended fences Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DAVENTRY WONDER; SHOWING HOW FARMER B-LL'S BEES ISSUED ..., by AGRICOLA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "now cynthia shone serene, and every star" Last Line: "let learned macclesfield say what he will, / spite of new style, we'll keep old christmas still" Alternate Author Name(s): Agricola Subject(s): Bees;christmas;farm Life;holidays;insects; "beekeeping;nativity, The;agriculture;farmers;bugs; THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEAD CALF, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow has fallen Last Line: In the baling arms of the tractor. Subject(s): Cows; Death - Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DIFFICULT LAND, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is a difficult land. Here things miscarry Subject(s): Farm Life; Endurance; Survival; Agriculture; Farmers THE DOE; A FRAGMENT, FR. WANDERING WILLIE, AN UNFINISHED EARLY POEM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And - 'yonder look! Yoho! Yoho! Last Line: The vital prop of human pride. Subject(s): Daughters; Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE DROUTH AND THE FARMER, by MARVIN E. HARVEY Poem Text First Line: His body sore and tired from working Last Line: Seize its brilliance -- fire and all. Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE DRY SPELL, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking early / with the warming house Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Cokking & Cooks; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers THE EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: FIELD, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The wind sprays pale dirt into my mouth Subject(s): Ethnic Groups - United States; Farm Life; Minorities - United States; San Joaquin Valley, California; United States - Race Relations; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: SUN, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In june the sun is a bonnet of light Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Sun; Agriculture; Farmers THE ELEMENTS OF SAN JOAQUIN: WIND, by GARY SOTO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A dry wind over the valley Subject(s): Farm Life; San Joaquin Valley, California; Wind; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Tenant at will indeed I am; & yet Last Line: Who would not chuse to be freeholders there? Subject(s): Farm Life; God; Worship; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Standing on top of the hay Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old macdonald had a farm Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM AGAIN, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dreamy rain comes down Last Line: Gay phantom armies pass. Subject(s): Farm Life; Laughter; Rain; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM ON THE GREAT PLAINS, by WILLIAM EDGAR STAFFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A telephone line goes cold Subject(s): Farm Life; Mormons; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM ON THE LINKS, by ROSAMUND MARRIOTT WATSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gray o'er the pallid links, haggard and forsaken Last Line: Only the old home welcomes them again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tomson, Graham R. Subject(s): Farm Life; Homecoming; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM-WOMAN'S WINTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If seasons all were summers Last Line: And what I love not, brings. Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARM; TO HAMO THORNYCROFT, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far in the soft warm west Last Line: To chant a threnody divine. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though hoarfrost rimes the barnyard Last Line: And hits the weather vane. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the still-blistering late afternoon Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER AND THE COUNSELLOR, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A counsel in the common pleas Last Line: "but not so many as when you were there!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Law & Lawyers; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He's up at daybreak in the morning Last Line: And wholesome as mountain air. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again, the year's decline, midst storms and floods Subject(s): Farm Life; Autumn; Weather; Disappointment; Agriculture; Farmers; Fall THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O come, blest spirit! Wheresoe'er thou art Subject(s): Farm Life; Spring; Seeds; Cheese; Sheep; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer's life displays in every part Subject(s): Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BOY: WINTER, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With kindred pleasures moved, and cares opprest Subject(s): Farm Life; Winter; Animals; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S BRIDE, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three summers since I chose a maid Last Line: The brown of her -- her eyes, her hair, her hair! Subject(s): Farm Life; Housewives; Love; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S HEAD, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At that instant there came a crash more terrific than any that had Last Line: He was rapidly shouting this as he ran from the barn. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S INGLE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whan gloaming grey out owr the welkin keeks Last Line: And a lang lasting train o' peaceful hours succeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Winter; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMER'S ROUND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: First comes january Last Line: A prosperous new year Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture;farmers THE FARMER'S SOLILOQUY, by ROBERT CHARLES O'HARA BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! For a thousand tongues to sing Last Line: Whilst few ask for religion. Subject(s): Farm Life; Religion; Agriculture; Farmers; Theology THE FARMER'S WIFE, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the hodge porridge Subject(s): Despair; Farm Life; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER'S WIFE AND THE GASCON, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At neufchatel, in france, where they prepare Last Line: The bottle-nose belonging to the judge! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Judges; Marriage; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE FARMER, THE SPANIEL, AND THE CAT, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why knits my dear her angry brow? Last Line: And spurn'd the snarler from his side. Subject(s): Animals; Beauty; Cats; Dogs; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FARMERS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mouth full of wet bandanna bound Last Line: Down the steps, back to the fields and the reaping. Subject(s): Farm Life; Rape; Women - Abused; Agriculture; Farmers; Wife Beating THE FARMERS OUTLAW WEEDS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The farmer lords of podunkville proclaimed a big conclave Last Line: For diplomats who resolute against the weed called war! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Diplomacy & Diplomats; Farm Life; Government; Law & Lawyers; Social Protest; War; Weeds; Agriculture; Farmers; Attorneys THE FARMSTEAD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I love the homestead. There Last Line: In the hush the evenings bring. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIELD, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH Poem Text First Line: I stand again in the field Last Line: Something he wished to keep ... And kept remembering. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIRE OF DRIFTWOOD; DEVEREUX FARM, NEAR MARBLEHEAD, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat within the farmhouse old Last Line: The thoughts that burned and glowed within. Subject(s): Farm Life; Marblehead, Massachusetts; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers THE FIRST BIRTH, by RODNEY JONES Poet's Biography First Line: I had not been there before where the vagina opens Subject(s): Birth; Cattle; Farm Life; Child Birth; Midwifery; Agriculture; Farmers THE FLAMES, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In 1972 I crossed kansas on a bus Last Line: A speechless church out of your dark / and invisible face Subject(s): Buses; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FLYING CHANGE, by HENRY SPLAWN TAYLOR Poet's Biography First Line: The canter has two stride patterns, one on the right lead Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE FROST, by GRACE ATHERTON DENNEN Poem Text First Line: The dawn - cold, pallid, half afraid, it seems Last Line: Shall we go in? For the new day is here. Subject(s): Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations THE FUNERAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It felt like the zero in brook ice Last Line: The cancer ate her like horse piss eats deep snow. Subject(s): Aunts; Cancer (disease); Farm Life; Funerals; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers; Burials THE GATE, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dust is thick along the road Last Line: "shadowed cool by a cassia tree." Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HAPPY FARMER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saw ye the farmer at his plough Last Line: The farmer's life may be. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HARVEST, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will arise now and go into the fields, to my love who / is at work Last Line: Where peace is and the quiet of the hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Love; Peace; Agriculture; Farmers THE HILL FARMER SPEAKS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the farmer, stripped of love Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HINT BEYOND, by FRANCES MARY FROST Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He and the wilder part of earth Last Line: A hint of blue, a ghost of gold. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HUNGRY GAP-TIME, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late august, before the harvest, every one of us worn down Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HUSKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was late in mild october, and the long autumnal rain Last Line: Send up our thanks to god! Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers THE HUSKING CHAMP, by RAY MURRAY Poem Text First Line: Fast, grasping hands both lithe and strong Last Line: A king of toil, a husking champ. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE HWOMESTEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had all the land my zight Last Line: To zee how things do grow. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Property; Quiet Life; Wishes; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE HWOMESTEAD A-VELL INTO HAND, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house where I wer born an' bred Last Line: By elems that did break the storm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Home; Homesteaders; Loss; Property; Agriculture; Farmers; Possessions THE LARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I, below the mornen sky Last Line: An' uncaught larks ageän mid sound. Subject(s): Birds; Farm Life; Larks; Agriculture; Farmers; Skylarks THE LAST OF MAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Plantin' time's already here Last Line: As to lose his soul. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Seeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LIFE OF JOHN HERITAGE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born in the cotswolds in eighteen-forty or so Last Line: Fall in with strange foot-fellows on the road. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LITTLE FARM, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired, I went away from town Last Line: And bright dawn in his breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LIVING, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After independence day / all our toys began to tear Subject(s): Cotton; Farm Life; African Americans - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Black Heritage THE LONG TRAIL: THE CORN LANDS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: And the corn-lands call! The long, long trail Last Line: From the soft blue haze of the timber line. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE PRAIRIE FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Under the lifting ridges of smoke Last Line: Is come—is come! Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor & Laborers; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE LONG TRAIL: THE RANGE, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Or the dull gaze lifts Last Line: To warmer crests with their glimpse of sea. Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE LOVERS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keeping hope in the field of next year's harvest Last Line: Dreams, he finds her barren and love spent. Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Agriculture; Farmers THE MAD FARMER REVOLUTION, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mad farmer, the thirsty one Last Line: Practice resurrection Subject(s): Christianity; Farm Life; Religion; Agriculture; Farmers; Theology THE MAN WITH THE HOE, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Last Line: After the silence of the centuries? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Farm Life; Freedom; Labor & Laborers; Mankind; Millet, Jean Francois (1814-1875); Oppression; Paintings & Painters; Religion; Social Protest; Soldiers; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty; Work; Workers; Human Race; Theology THE MEMORY, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cotton rows crisscross the world Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MOUNTAIN FARM, by WALTER HARD Poem Text First Line: The farm lay along the slope of the mountain Last Line: "it'd jest be a worriment." Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE MULLINS FARM, by RICHARD H. W. DILLARD Poet's Biography First Line: The sun through the window Alternate Author Name(s): Dillard, R. H. W. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE NEW STYLE WESTERN, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The two horsemen Last Line: Of living together Subject(s): Farm Life; Rio Grande River; West (u.s.); Agriculture; Farmers; Southwest; Pacific States THE NIGHT HERDER, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laughed when the dawn was a-peepin' Last Line: And a lone rider sings to the moon? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails THE OBSCURE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the poor first light of morning Last Line: That her breasts filled the window like a mouth. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Pigs; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Boars; Hogs THE OLD BREVOORT FARM, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A snug little farm was the old brevoort Last Line: Eleventh street's not opened through, to this day! Subject(s): Farm Life; New York City; Agriculture; Farmers; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE OLD FARM, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Oh, the old, old farm, and the old farm's joys! Last Line: "across the twilight's dusk and grey, still calls, ""come, boys, come in""!" Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Prairies; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains THE OLD HAYMOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old haymow's the place to Last Line: Ac' ha'f-way like a gentleman! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE OLD PENNSYLVANIA FARMER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well - well! This is a comfort, now - the air is mild as may Last Line: There can't be rivers there and fields, without some sort o' farm! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Farm Life; Pennsylvania; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers THE OLD VERMONT FARM, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Most every day some village care ...' Last Line: It's good enough for me. Subject(s): Farm Life; Horseback Riding; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers THE ONION, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The onion, now that's something else Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE ORCHARD AND THE HEATH, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chanced upon an early walk to spy Last Line: Far down with mellow orchards to endow. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Gypsies; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers; Gipsies THE PAINFUL PLOUGH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: That all mankind dependeth upon the painful plough Subject(s): Farm Life;plowing & Plowmen; Agriculture;farmers THE PASTURE BARS, by CHARLES H. STONE Poem Text First Line: The evening sky is all aglow Last Line: "co' boss, co' boss, co' boss." Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 102, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I retired to the edge of a forest Last Line: Of bobbing ducks on the waves Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Farm Life; Simplicity; Agriculture; Farmers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 118, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The month when farmers escape the heat Last Line: Sumeru is just a pea Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Drinks & Drinking; Farm Life; Heat; Wine; Agriculture; Farmers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 60, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A farmer with acres of mulberry groves Last Line: Dying of hunger and cold in the end Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Farm Life; Pain; Agriculture; Farmers; Suffering; Misery THE POINTLESS NETHER PLOW, by WILL ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is farming in an inclement sun system Last Line: Carving his soil with volcanic blue seeds Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE POTATO DIGGER'S SONG, by THOMAS CAULFIELD IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, connal, acushla, turn the clay Last Line: Of ireland. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE PRODIGAL'S BROTHER SPEAKS, by BESS SAMUEL AYRES Poem Text First Line: Each night he talked of distant joppa's lure Last Line: And share vicariously his garnered sights. Subject(s): Brothers; Duty; Farm Life; Travel; Half-brothers; Agriculture; Farmers; Journeys; Trips THE PROUD FARMER, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the acres of the newborn state Last Line: And lion-dreams begin to burn within. Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE REAPER, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: All through the blood-red autumn Last Line: That the gleaner be glad in his gleaning. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Seasons; Spring; Summer; Winter; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers THE RIGHT HAND OF A MEXICAN FARMWORKER, SOMERSET COUNTY, MD, by MARTIN ESPADA Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rosary tattoo / betwen thumb Subject(s): Farm Life; Hispanic Americans; Agriculture; Farmers; Latinos THE RISING OF THE SESSION, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To a' men living be it kend Last Line: Wi blythsome glee. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Farm Life; Time; Writing & Writers; Agriculture; Farmers THE RWOSE IN THE DARK, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In zummer, leate at evenen tide Last Line: Ov her bright feäce by mornèn light. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Love; Marriage; Roses; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SABINE FARMER'S SERENADE, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a windy night Last Line: Charming judy callaghan. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Variant Title(s): Charming Judy Callaghan Subject(s): Farm Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Agriculture; Farmers THE SEASONS: SUMMER, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From brightening fields of ether fair Last Line: And ever rising with the rising mind. Subject(s): Farm Life; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THE SECOND EPODE OF HORACE IMITATED, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who free from cares and strife Last Line: In innocence of joy and rural mirth. Subject(s): Farm Life; Hunting; Nature; Praise; Quiet Life; Agriculture; Farmers; Hunters THE SHEEP CHILD, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farm boys wild to couple Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SHEPHERD O' THE FARM, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I be shepherd o' the farm Last Line: As ef I were a king a-crown'd. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SIMPLE TRUTH, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bought a dollar and a half's worth of small red potatoes Subject(s): Farm Life; Truth; Agriculture; Farmers THE SNAKE, by WENDELL BERRY Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of october / I found on the floor of the woods Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOLDIERS OF THE PLOUGH, FR. THE HAPPY HARVESTERS, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No maiden dream, nor fancy theme Last Line: Man's labour must provide it. Subject(s): Country Life; Farm Life; Plowing & Plowmen; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOLITARY POND, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fall we moved to the farm, I was thirteen Last Line: The very scratches left by my experiment Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SON; SOUTHERN OHIO MARKET TOWN, by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard an old farm-wife Last Line: "but the harvest early." Subject(s): Farm Life; Mothers; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOW PIGLET'S ESCAPES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the little sow piglet squirmed free Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now falls the dusk I sit in peace Last Line: Athwart the starry world. Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWER, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peaceful and cool, the twilight grey Last Line: Seems to my eyes sublimely grand! Subject(s): Farm Life; Seeds; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWER AND HIS SEED, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He planted an oak in his father's park Last Line: And will never be heard again. Subject(s): Farm Life; Oak Trees; Thought; Agriculture; Farmers; Thinking THE SOWER'S SONG, by THOMAS CARLYLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now hands to seedsheet, boys! Last Line: For beast and man must be fed. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SOWERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning sow thy seed, nor stay thy hand at evening hour Last Line: Laden with his sheaves of glory, doubtless shall return with singing. Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers THE STRONG ARE SAYING NOTHING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soil now gets a rumpling soft and damp, Last Line: Hut the strong are saying nothing until they see Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE SUMMER STORM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon-time I stood in the door-way to see Last Line: And talked of their homesteads instead of their hay. Subject(s): Farm Life; Storms; Agriculture; Farmers THE SUN IN THE CRADLE OF CORNFIELDS, by PAMELA MCCLURE Poem Text First Line: His laughter the burning of kindling Subject(s): Farm Life; Fire; Agriculture; Farmers THE TABLE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking back to the farm from the depot Subject(s): Farm Life; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Agriculture; Farmers; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE THREE-CORNERED LOT, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Said the farmer to his daughter: 'when I die, as like as not Last Line: "and the stone walls of the foolish man wherewith to build a home." Subject(s): Farm Life; Fathers & Daughters; Inheritance & Succession; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs THE TIMES TABLE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than halfway up the pass Last Line: And bring back nature in people’s place Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers THE VERMONT 'HIRED MAN', by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hired man we knew of yore Last Line: The past and present hired man. Subject(s): Cattle; Cows; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Milk; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Milkmen; Milkmaids THE VIOLET FARM, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I might choose my simple lot Last Line: Tis I would have a violet farm. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Ambition; Farm Life; Flowers; Violets; Agriculture; Farmers THE WOLD WAGGON, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girt wold waggon uncle had Last Line: V a-ben a-done vor years agoo. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Wagons; Agriculture; Farmers THE WOODCUT ON THE COVER OF ROBERT FROST'S COMPLETE POEMS, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man plowing starts at the side of the field Last Line: Then walking home with the horses at end of day. Subject(s): Farm Life; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Plowing & Plowmen; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers THIS MORNING, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The barn bears the weight Last Line: Tremble as it passes Subject(s): Farm Life; Snow; Agriculture; Farmers THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer winds is sniffin' round Last Line: And the dew is full of heavenly love that drips fer me and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Flowers; Rain; Roses; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers THOUGHTS NEAR ASHAMPSTEAD AERODROME, HARVEST-TIME, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Not for the last time be our england filled Last Line: "god bless friend hodge,"" they say; ""his gear be sped!" Subject(s): Airports; England - Social Life & Customs; Farm Life; Harvest; Old Age; Agriculture; Farmers THOUGHTS OF A TINY PIG, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had a different life to live Last Line: To get away from the smell. Subject(s): Farm Life; Pigs; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs TILLAGE MARKS, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farm Life; Stones; Agriculture; Farmers; Granite; Rocks TO A WALL OF FLAME IN A STEEL MILL, SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, 1969, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Except under the cool shadows of the pines Subject(s): Fathers; Solitude; Farm Life; Mills & Millers; Agriculture; Farmers TO MS. ANN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will have to forget Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TO TEACHERS OF THE YOUNG, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Husbandman, for work prepare Last Line: Finds an early tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Weather; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A VOICE OVER THE EARTH, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sound of a voice floating round the earth Last Line: "wench: she cries, ""how good, how good it is, o come again!" Subject(s): Civilization; Farm Life; Fields; Peasantry; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE PLOUGHBOY, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blackbirds sing so sweetly in the morning Last Line: Lord! It does make you sweat! Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Labor & Laborers; Singing & Singers; Stables; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers; Songs TREES AND CATTLE, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many trees can stand unshaded Last Line: A ccow beneath it lies down Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers UNCLE AN' AUNT, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy uncle us'd to be Last Line: In leafy boughs a-swaÿèn. Subject(s): Aunts; Farm Life; Gardens & Gardening; Happiness; Summer; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers; Joy; Delight UNCLE JOHN FIDDLER, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I walked down on greasy, greasy Last Line: To hear the lord himself afiddling. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Farm Life; Roosters; Agriculture; Farmers; Cocks UNCLE OUT O' DEBT AN' OUT O' DANGER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ees; uncle had thik small hwomestead Last Line: Vor the vu'st that do meddle wi' me or my meäre.' Subject(s): Animals; Debt; Farm Life; Horses; Uncles; Agriculture; Farmers VELLEN THE TREE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aye, the girt elem tree out in little hwome groun Last Line: Wer a-stannèn this mornèn, an' now's a-cut down. Subject(s): Elm Trees; Farm Life; Lumber & Lumbering; Spring; Agriculture; Farmers; Woodsmen VERMONT CORN MEAL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What fun it used to be to feel Last Line: To husky boys and yellow meal. Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VERMONT FALL FEED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The perfect barnyard has a gate Last Line: "we never reach the middle mowing." Subject(s): Barnyards; Farm Life; Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Prairies; Pumpkins; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers; Plains VERMONT FARMING TOOLS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The leakiest roof in all vermont Last Line: As dry as our insides. Subject(s): Farm Life; Machinery & Machinists; Mowing & Mowers; Tools; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers VERMONT MORGANS, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I notice in my car, when nearing Last Line: He hands him out a morgan mare. Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Horses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers VERMONT WOOL CARDING, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A-when we used to shear the sheep Last Line: The greeley hat and paisley shawl. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 5: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Villius the wealthy farmer left his heir Last Line: That fourtie pounds serue not the farmers heyre. Subject(s): Farm Life; Inheritance & Succession; Money; Wealth; Agriculture; Farmers; Heirs; Riches; Fortunes WAKING ON THE FARM, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I can remember the early mornings - how the stubble Subject(s): Morning; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WARNING TO WHODUNIT FANS, by INEZ GEORGE GRIDLEY Poem Text First Line: You like your murders gory when they're safely in a story Last Line: When you awake and find yourself with a murder on your hand! Subject(s): Catskill Mountains, New York State; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WASHING SHEEP IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's folks that look like other folks Last Line: There's nothing, sure, like washing sheep. Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WEARINESS OF MEN, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother said when she was young Subject(s): Grandparents; Farm Life; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT A DAINTY LIFE THE MILKMAID LEADS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And merrily passes the time away Subject(s): Cows;farm Life; Agriculture;farmers WHAT IF THE WORLD STAYS ALWAYS FAR OFF, by LINDA GREGG Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if the world is taken from me? Subject(s): Farm Life; Greece; Agriculture; Farmers; Greeks WHAT SMITH KNEW ABOUT FARMING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There wasn't two purtier farms in the state Last Line: And leave agriculture alone -- and the browns. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farm Life; Food & Eating; Harvest; Horticulture; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT THE ANIMALS PAID, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hampshire ewes standing in their wooden pens Last Line: In the farm way, I am writing this poem today Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WHAT THE FARMER SAW, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: John d. Rockefeller, he Last Line: Seemed as pleased as pleased could be. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Farm Life; Rockefeller, John Davison (1839-1937); Agriculture; Farmers WHEAT ELEVATORS (MINNESOTA), by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Castles, or titans' houses, or huge fanes Last Line: Or joseph stored egyptian corn away. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WHEN THE COLTS ARE IN THE RING (AS RILEY WOULD SEE IT), by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the fair time, the rare time, I can feel it Last Line: For the bloom is on the maiden and the colts are in the ring. Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Horse Racing; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants WHEN THE WORLD BU'STS THROUGH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where's a boy a-goin' Last Line: "clean -- plum -- through!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Disasters; Earthquakes; Farm Life; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHERE THE CHILDREN USED TO PLAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old farm-home is mother's yet and mine Last Line: To the orchard where the children used to play. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Farm Life; Orchards; Past; Childhood; Agriculture; Farmers WHICH ROAD?, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still green on the limbs o' the woak wer the leaves Last Line: Gaït o' walkèn, so smooth as an aïr-zwimmèn cloud Subject(s): Farm Life; Festivals; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Fairs; Pageants; Paths; Trails WHIRLIGIGS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two bearded men: one chops a log Last Line: Waving our arms to scare the crows away Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WILLIAM CORBY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drive my cows to corby Last Line: When william corby's dead! Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt Variant Title(s): Witching Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas WORKS AND DAYS: THE FARMER'S YEAR: THE SIGN OF THE PLEIADS, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first the pleiads, children of atlas, arise Last Line: Or beg at another's door, and none shall heed. Variant Title(s): Advice To Farmers Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers WORKS AND DAYS: THE FARMER'S YEAR: WHEN THE CRANE FLIES SOUTH, by HESIOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark, when you hear aloft in the clouds of the sky Last Line: For the coming of grey-husked spring and the season of rain. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers YORK KIDNEY POTATOES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One farmer giles, an honest clown Last Line: "none but york kidneys does for mashing." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Farm Life; Potatoes; Agriculture; Farmers ZEA, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once their fruit is picked, Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers |
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