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| Searching... Subject: PEASANTRY Matches Found: 41 A SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart has flown on wings to you, away Last Line: A sad life deep below the depth of words. Subject(s): Love; Peasantry; Poverty AFTER TENIERS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet curve of sombre brown water Last Line: In the deep'ning gloom of the evening time. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Evening; Peasantry; Wine; Sunset; Twilight AFTERNOON, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some one is coming to call Last Line: Down in the daffodil leaves — Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Household Employees; Peasantry; Servants; Domestics; Maids AS OF OLD, by BERNARD M. KIRKE Poem Text First Line: A misty eye and a wasted cheek Last Line: And mingle blood with groans. Subject(s): Peasantry AT THE DEATH OF A MONGOLIAN PEASANT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The trees turned around as if to quarrel with him Last Line: And some simple wretchedness unto bliss. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Mongols And Mongolia; Peasantry; Salvation; Dead, The AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Text 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 AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sad indian's having the time of his life Last Line: That the farmer sows in the skies and the nebulae Subject(s): Farm Life; Native Americans; Peasantry; Shepherds And Shepherdesses BYELORUSSIA, SELS., by MOISHE KULBAK Subject(s): Peasantry COUNTRY MAN, SELS., by GEORGE FAREWELL Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Men; Peasantry FOR A MISSING IN ACTION, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hazed with heat and harvest dust Last Line: As the leaf-man rises and stumbles to them. Subject(s): Death; Peasantry; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The FRENCH PEASANTS, by MONK GIBBON Poem Source First Line: These going home at dusk Subject(s): Peasantry LAST OF THE PEASANTRY, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What does he know? Moving through the fields Last Line: Within is dark and bare, the grey ash %is cold now, blow on it as you will Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Peasantry MADONNA OF THE MARKETPLACE, by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Sweet lavender - pray who will buy?' Last Line: Madonna of the marketplace. Subject(s): Markets; Peasantry; Supermarkets NORMAN PEASANTS, by MARTHA HALE SHACKFORD Poem Text First Line: Those workers in the fields and heat Last Line: To meet the fading stars, each day. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Peasantry; Wellesley College PARNELL, by DAVID CINTINO Poem Source First Line: In the queen's cellar at eltham Last Line: You needed, what needed you Subject(s): Ireland; Peasantry PEASANT, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's the mixture of peasantry Last Line: That birds descend from. Subject(s): Birds; Hope; Peasantry; Optimism PEASANT, by LEONARD WOLF Poem Source First Line: Six times faster than the fool can weep Last Line: It is not I,' his country cousin yelled, %'who cut the gentle jugulars of sheep!' Subject(s): Peasantry PEASANT GREETING, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No speech; the raised hand affirms Last Line: To his long grave under the wave of wind %that breaks continually on the brittle ear Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Peasantry PEASANT; A PRAYER TO THE POWERS OF THIS WORLD, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All those years that you ate and changed Last Line: Make me %I am bringing up my children to be with you Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Peasantry PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting Last Line: History staggers in their wake. %the peasants watch them die Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii POSTCARD: 2, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: Six miles from here Last Line: To drink clouds Subject(s): Peasantry POUR UN JEUNE CHALAMOUN QUI SE VEND DANS LA RUE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Powerful white teeth Last Line: Give my soul, just to take the money and not give my soul Subject(s): Capitalism; Money; Peasantry; Trade RIO VERDE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rio verde, rio verde! Last Line: No royal power hath he! Subject(s): Peasantry; Rio Verde (river), Spain SILVER SLEEVES, by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: She was a queen with silver sleeves and ermine Last Line: -- she is content! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Peasantry; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes SO, FROM THE MOULD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Gaze perplexedly! Subject(s): Peasantry THE BEDRIDDEN PEASANT; TO AN UNKNOWING GOD, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Much wonder I - here long low-laid Last Line: The mercies thou wouldst show! Subject(s): Peasantry; Sickness; Illness THE BENCH OF BOORS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bed I muse on tenier's boors Last Line: Cat-naps take in pipe-bowl light. Subject(s): Paintings & Painters; Peasantry; Teniers, David, The Younger, (1610-1690) THE KING AND THE PEASANT, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Once, at the self-same point of time Last Line: "once only in a hundred years!" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Heaven; Peasantry; Sin; Paradise THE LAST MAN, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Here, in our familiar streets, the day Last Line: Little hands of silver on his brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Variant Title(s): The Last Man; For Vivian Schatz Subject(s): Harvest; Peasantry THE PEASANT POET, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He loved the brook's soft sound Last Line: A poet in his joy. Subject(s): Peasantry; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Theology THE PEASANT'S APOLOGY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down near the earth Last Line: Bitterness and blackness from the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Grief; Peasantry; Sorrow; Sadness THE PEASANTS, by ALUN LEWIS Poet's Biography First Line: The dwarf barefooted, chanting Subject(s): Peasantry; Soldiers' Writings; World War Ii; Second World War THE RUNAWAY, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Ya, I'm a runaway wife. God's truth, which I don't deny Last Line: I'll see you in hell before I'll go back—my girl is american born. Subject(s): Escapes; Peasantry; Police; Russia; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Fugitives; Soviet Union; Russians THE SALT SONG, by NIKOLAY ALEXEYEVICH NEKRASOV Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: How salt the tear! Alternate Author Name(s): Nekrasov, N. A. Subject(s): Hunger; Pain; Peasantry; Russia; Suffering; Misery; Soviet Union; Russians THE SINNER OF WAKEFIELD: THE YEOMAN AND PEASANTRY OF OLD ENGLAND, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master mannering, stand aside Last Line: For well thou hast deserved reward and favour. Subject(s): Peasantry THE WORM IN THE EAR, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If peasants had written they would have ceased to be peasants Last Line: Chin up? Ready? Subject(s): Peasantry; Writing & Writers; Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976); Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) THEOTOKOS, by INGEMAR LECKIUS Poem Source First Line: Peasant girl in grief-woven mantle, Last Line: Like gentle tappings at the temple door... Subject(s): Peasantry 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. AT MENTONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why speak ye not, ye beautiful lands and seas Last Line: Why utterest not the voice we long to hear? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Earth; History; Mankind; Peasantry; Graveyards; Dead, The; World; Historians; Human Race UNTITLED LITTLE VERSES ..., by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The water is green. The two boats out at a distance Last Line: Of a field beside the green, winter sea. Subject(s): Animals; Fights; Horses; Life; Peasantry WORM IN THE EAR, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If peasants had written they would have ceased to be peasants Last Line: The cold comes on. %chin up? Ready? Subject(s): Peasantry; Writing And Writers |
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