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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THREE MEN, by WITTER BYNNER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: In a house born of the brown earth
Last Line: And wondered where it was calling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Variant Title(s): An Adobe House
Subject(s): Earth; Houses; Men; Poetry & Poets; World
First Line: In a house born of the brown earth
Last Line: And wondered where it was calling.
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Variant Title(s): An Adobe House
Subject(s): Earth; Houses; Men; Poetry & Poets; World
In a house born of the brown earth
And dying back to earth again
Without any desire to be more than earth
And without any particular pain,
Beside a mother-ditch giving
To fields not yet tall,
Three men were sitting with poems on their knees --
And they heard the wind rise and fall.
And one of them heard his own voice rising,
And one of them heard his own voice falling,
And the other heard only the summons of the wind
And wondered where it was calling.
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