Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER FORTY YEARS, by MAMIE A. MELOY First Line: The shining, friendly cottonwoods Last Line: Beneath their changeless prairie sky. Subject(s): Canadian River; Cottonwood Trees; Graves; Pioneers; Time; Tombs; Tombstones | ||||||||
The shining, friendly cottonwoods Along my loved Canadian Still gracious spread their welcome shade As when my father's toil first made His prairie acres rich with grain. Past weathered mounds of last year's straw Unripened, bearded wheat still bends; The plow still turns; the hoe still shines; Grass-deep, the mower whirrs and whines; The oat its green and silver blends. Their fields remain, their prairie tamed, Shut in with fence lines they first drew, Bound fast with nets of road they laid; The schoolhouse, church, and town they made Endure for generations new. Along my loved Canadian The men alone, are gone; they lie Where cottonwoods shine overhead In patient rows of neighboring dead -- Beneath their changeless prairie sky. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES by RANDALL JARRELL SUBJECTED EARTH by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER THOSE GRAVES IN ROME by LARRY LEVIS NOT TO BE DWELLED ON by HEATHER MCHUGH ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE by PAUL MULDOON ETRUSCAN TOMB by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR by MARVIN BELL AN EARLY PIONEER by MAMIE A. MELOY |
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