Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO TEACHERS OF THE YOUNG, by JANET HAMILTON 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 | ||||||||
HUSBANDMAN, for work prepare Tender plants of promise fair; Rise! around thee everywhere Life's young spring-time claims thy care, Willing heart and hand. Dig, manure, and prune, and train Suns, and dew, and vernal rain, Seek from Heaven, nor seek in vain Flowers and fruits reward thy pain Fair the smiling land. Break thou up the fallow ground, With the will the way is found; Faint not!thorns and weeds abound Seeds of knowledge scatter round God shall give increase. Father! God! we ask for bread, Stones Thou wilt not give instead Down Thy promised Spirit shed Toil is vain and hope is dead, Till Thou quicken these. We have seenwe daily see, Plant of hope, some fair young tree, In the soft winds waving free, Green and full of sap is he Rich the promised bloom. Look again! A hot simoom Scorches tree, and branch, and bloom Write in blood the drunkard's doom, Quenched in misery, guilt, and gloom, Finds an early tomb. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER WORKING SIXTY HOURS AGAIN FOR WHAT REASON by HICOK. BOB DAY JOB AND NIGHT JOB by ANDREW HUDGINS BIXBY'S LANDING by ROBINSON JEFFERS ON BUILDING WITH STONE by ROBINSON JEFFERS LINES FROM A PLUTOCRATIC POETASTER TO A DITCH-DIGGER by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS IN CALIFORNIA: MORNING, EVENING, LATE JANUARY by DENISE LEVERTOV A BALLAD FOUNDED ON A REAL INCIDENT WHICH OCCURED IN HIGH LIFE by JANET HAMILTON |
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