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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FIELDS Matches Found: 447 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 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War A BALLADE OF GREEN FIELDS; FOR F.W.M., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Beyond the compass of our sight Last Line: For distant fields are always green. Subject(s): Fields; Imagination; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Fancy 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 GUIDE TO THE FIELD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the wild pasture, this mile of strewn grasses Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A GYPSY SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Can tute rakker romany? Last Line: To my old sweetheart in her springtime gown Subject(s): Fields;gypsies;singing & Singers;spring;towns; Pastures;meadows;leas;gipsies A HAPPY LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: O what a life is this I lead Last Line: With such a life as this to lead? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Life; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A MEADOW TRAGEDY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a meadow full of sunshine Last Line: And a song up in the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A MORNING-PIECE, OR, AN HYMN FOR THE HAY-MAKERS, by CHRISTOPHER SMART Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brisk chaunticleer his matins had begun Last Line: And we'll dance to the tune of the stream. Subject(s): Fields; Labor & Laborers; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers A MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow on a line of flat rooftops beneath a sky of driven clouds Subject(s): Fields; France; Solitude; Southern Hemisphere; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Loneliness A PASTURE, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rough pasture where the blackberries grow Last Line: Well, maybe -- I'm not city-bred. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas A RIOT OF MEADOWS, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meadows! Deep-reasoning meadows, philosopher friends Last Line: I shall have you happily still wherever I go. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ADVICE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, you two eyes, that have all night been sleeping Last Line: Come into the meadows, where the lambs are leaping. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ALTER EGO, by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: At times, I wish I had been able %to stay on in the home place Last Line: On winter nights, my outside light %would perforate the dark Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Nature; Summer AN APRIL DAY, by ROSS LAWRENCE Poem Text First Line: In from the blue a galaxy of sound Last Line: God minds us all upon an april day. Subject(s): April; Birds; Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 ANT WORLD: THE LEAF-CUTTERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: Cross-sectioned and cubed Last Line: Leaf bit by leaf bit Subject(s): Ants; Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Insects; Leaves; Nature; Trees APOLOGIA, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: How long have you measured the lives %of my people as you arrow Last Line: It's as close as I can get to freedom Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Fields; Immigrants; Minnesota APPLE BOXES, by JANE BROX Poem Source First Line: Some of our apple boxes come from a hundred miles away: 'moose hill Last Line: Their crowns still shaped by old prunings Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest AUTUMN DAWN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A highroad's barren scar Last Line: Hsi eager gun at rest, a hunter stalking game Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Hunting BARROW, by ANTHONY THWAITE Poem Source First Line: In this high field strewn with stones Last Line: One living, and not these dead Subject(s): Environment; Fields BARROW, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our brittle bones were chilled to envy Last Line: Above our age's burial mound Subject(s): Environment; Fields BEAN FIELDS, by MARGARET HASSE Poem Source First Line: They labor along the straight lines of their Last Line: Opening here, closing there Subject(s): Beans; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor And Laborers BEFORE WE MOTHERNAKED FALL, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Oil Fields; Gold BEGGAR'S LUCK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Where did you sleep in the country, lad? Last Line: And drove me away with stones.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Environment; Fields; Homeless; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BEGINNING, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon drops one or two feathers into the fields. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Fields; Moon; Love; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BERKSHIRE HILLS, by WILL H. SKALING Poem Text First Line: Sunrise o'er berkshire hills, hush Last Line: Sedge in meadows, river lush. Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain) BERRYING TIME, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heigh-ho! For the fields and meadows Last Line: That ripen in july. Subject(s): Fields; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BEYOND THE MEADOWS OF JERSEY, by WILLIAM WOODFORD ROCK Poem Text First Line: Over the meadows and far away Last Line: Is my snug little home in jersey. Subject(s): Fields; New Jersey; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BLACK FURROW, GRAY FURROW, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: From the black furrow, a fecund Last Line: Fishbone and crust Subject(s): Environment; Fields BOHEME, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Instead of fields in blossom-this grey rain! Last Line: With all our conquering visions ranged below. Subject(s): Bohemian Forest, Europe; Fields; Spain; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BONNIE KILMANY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bonnie kilmany, in the county of fife Last Line: Chorus— Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Tourists; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips BOOK OF THE RISING FIELD, by ANDREW GRACE Poem Source First Line: Chapter 1: the planting Last Line: The arrowheads are cast aside' Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Plantation Life BREAD AND BUTTER LETTER, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Bread is the fields of wheat Last Line: No daemon darken your site Subject(s): Environment; Fields BRIGHT FIELD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the sun break through Last Line: Once, but is the eternity that awaits you Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Environment; Fields BROCKHAMPTON, by ALISON BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: The land was too wet for ploughing; yet it is done Last Line: The stubborn light of things Subject(s): Environment; Fields BROWN EARTH LOOK, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The youth burning couch grass is as tired Last Line: Peace with its sorrow blots out the agonies of strife Subject(s): Environment; Fields BUCOLIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having enough plowshares, %the best in the world, and fat pastures Last Line: Nodding, whether in agreement or sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Sheep BURNING OFF, by MAUREEN DUFFY Poem Source First Line: Already autumn stains %a branch here and there Last Line: I should pour my heart's blood %out for luck. I do Subject(s): Environment; Fields BY RAIL THROUGH THE EARTHLY PARADISE, PERHAPS BEDFORDSHIRE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fishermen among the fireweed Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas BY RAIL THROUGH THE EARTHLY PARADISE, PERHAPS BEDFORDSHIRE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fishermen among the fireweed Last Line: An angler's fly %lost in the sedge to watch the centuries Subject(s): Environment; Fields CABBAGE FIELD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both taine and the inland english child Last Line: Anything but the sea? Subject(s): Cabbage; Environment; Fields CALIFORNIA POPPY FIELDS, by EMMET PENDLETON Poem Text First Line: The poppy fields are mine today Last Line: I feel a king, the world, my throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Pendleton, Robert Emmet Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Happiness; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Joy; Delight CALL OF THE OPEN, by LAURA E. BRADSHAW Poem Text First Line: Away from the din of the city Last Line: Nature and peace and god. Subject(s): Desolation; Fields; Rivers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CASTILE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, land of castile, you do raise me up Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips CASTILE, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, land of castile, you do raise me up Last Line: If worthy of you to the world they'll come down from the uplands Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Travel CATFISH FARM, by ELTON GLASER Poem Source First Line: Here's low we do it, out in the sloppy fields Last Line: Bristle and swill, bonepickers with a seasick gait Subject(s): Child Labor; Farm Life; Fields CHANGE, by A. A. HEDGE COKE Poem Source First Line: Thirteen years ago, before bulk barns and Last Line: Of before that time and it %floods my memory Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Fire-weeds; Migrant Labor; North Carolina; Smoke; Tractors CHELAN, by ANN SPIERS Poem Source First Line: In a decades-long dance gomez and alverro Last Line: The bees are gone summer sits overlong %and too much fruit weighs down the trees Subject(s): Fields; Frost; Fruit; Summer CHILDHOOD MEMORY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sunshine in morning field Last Line: Chasms of inhuman darkness veiled Subject(s): Environment; Fields CHRISTMAS SONNET TO E. C. S., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When days were long, and o'er that farm Last Line: Yet with your blossom from one root it grew. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Christmas; Fields; Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908); Summer; Nativity, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CIRCUS AT NIGHT, by MADELEINE AARON Poem Text First Line: The weathered tent on this star-gilded night Last Line: And singing crickets claim the field again. Subject(s): Circus; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CLARITY, by R. D. PATRICK Poem Source First Line: On this open road the gravel is hard under me Last Line: Tumbling in the white light Subject(s): Fields; Light; Roads CLEANING OUT THE SULLER IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time to clean the suller out Last Line: "it's pretty clean down suller." Subject(s): Cattle; Fields; Spring; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CLEARING AT DAWN, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fields are chill; the sparse rain has stopped Last Line: Blown by the wind slowly scatters away. Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Nature; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CLOVER FIELDS, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fields are overcast with light at evening Last Line: The meadows give their answer to this hour of waiting Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Environment; Fields COMMUNION, by CLARA FOX Poem Text First Line: A man saw a soft brown, newly-cut, wheat field Last Line: He felt the strength of god rise up in him. Subject(s): Faith; Fields; God; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Wheat; Belief; Creed; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers CONCERNING HOES, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: You have heard of that over-worked man with the hoe Last Line: Nor ripens life's harvest with penitent tears. Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers CONSIDER THE LILIES OF THE FIELD (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers preach to us if we will hear Last Line: To nourish one small seed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flowers; Lilies; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CORN, by RUTH LECHLITNER Poem Text First Line: Here at our side Last Line: Let us walk softly . . . Softly. Subject(s): Corn; Fields; Graves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones CORN-GRINDING SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "butterflies, butterflies" Last Line: "butterflies, away!" Subject(s): Butterflies;fields;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs CORNISH ACRE, by ALFRED LESLIE ROWSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: This is the field that looks to the south Last Line: Pause yet awhile upon this slope %remembering me Subject(s): Environment; Fields COUNTRY MAN, SELS., by GEORGE FAREWELL Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Men; Peasantry COUNTRY ROADS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: A pale morning in june 4 am Last Line: And skidded back again. %traveling over the great and luminous sahara lit by clouds Subject(s): Driving And Drivers; Fields; Roads; Sahara Desert; Travel COWSLIPS AND LARKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear it said yon land is poor Last Line: Are many a sunny mile from here. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas CRACKED LEAF GHAZAL, by LAURA D. NICHOLS Poem Source First Line: Commit a maple leaf to memory Last Line: Below the bent fibers of asphalt: %the scent of fallen berries Subject(s): Fields; Memory 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 CYNDDYLAN ON A TRACTOR, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, you should see cynddylan on a tractor Last Line: As cynddylan passes proudly up the lane Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Environment; Fields DANCE OF DEATH: FARMER, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked with plow Last Line: Et, ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dirt; Farm Life; Fields DARK MEADOW INVITES ME, by JOSE LEZAMA LIMA Poem Source Last Line: One bird and another no longer shiver Subject(s): Fields DEMONS IN TEXAS, by STEPHEN LOWE Poem Source First Line: Start the truck,' was the call Last Line: And the early morning hours Subject(s): Fields; Prairies - Texas 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 DOOR, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How the sun lights the fuses of the sky- Last Line: Where the sandhill crane calls and calls, her song %the sound of someone opening a door... Subject(s): Fields; Nature DRIVING THROUGH NEW ENGLAND, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: These wheatfields %white poets call the past Subject(s): Fields; New England DURHAM FIELD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lordings, listen, and hold you still" Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;durham, England;england;fields;" English;pastures;meadows;leas EARTH POEMS: 5, by JAVIER HERAUD Poem Source First Line: Everything's the color of leaves Last Line: For leaves in bud %and in their burrow Subject(s): Fields; Leaves EARTHWORM, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who really respects the earthworm Last Line: This deathless, gray, tiny farmer in the planet's soil Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields; Men ECLOGUE: APRIL, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the fresh wet fields Last Line: Came the wild errant %swallows with a scream Subject(s): Environment; Fields ELYSIAN FIELDS OF AMERICA, by ROBERT BENSE Poem Source First Line: There are no more cows Last Line: Of space. Slow descent %into time Subject(s): Fields; United States ENGLISH WILD FLOWERS, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Forget the latin names; the english ones Last Line: An eden summer, this flower-rich creation Subject(s): Environment; Fields EPISODES OF HAYING TIME, by HOLGER CHRISTENSEN Poem Text First Line: Under clear blue skies in the month of june Last Line: But I pray that I might be more like dad! Subject(s): Fields; Labor & Laborers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers EPITAPH AT GREAT TORRINGTON, DEVON, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Here lies a man who was killed by lightning Last Line: But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble Subject(s): Environment; Fields EVEN FORSAKEN THEY'D FLOWER, by RAUL ZURITA Poem Source First Line: Forsaken they would not see the prairies but only a cry Last Line: Themselves with joy singing even forsaken they'd flower Subject(s): Abandonment; Chile; Fields; South America FAIRLIE GLEN, by ROBERT TENNANT Poem Text First Line: O, there's a glen, a bonnie glen, the bairnies lo'e it dearly Last Line: But spring will come, and then they'll sing in yon wee glen fairlie. Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FALL FIELDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sober-golden fields lie soaked in light Last Line: Turns paler blue above such tapestry. Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Light; Rugs; Seasons; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Carpets FARM WOMAN, by BERNICE CAREY FITCH Poem Text First Line: The children finally in bed, each bare Last Line: To join her man in sleep's well-earned repose. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FARMWORKER, by PATRICK JOSEPH GREGORY KAVANAGH Poem Source First Line: Manhandled haybales not so yellow Last Line: To suffer birds and not have to answer Subject(s): Environment; Fields FETCHING COWS, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black one, last as usual, swings her head Subject(s): Cows; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FETCHING COWS, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black one, last as usual, swings her head Last Line: The black cow is two native carriers %bringing its belly home, slung from a pole Subject(s): Cows; Environment; Fields FIELD, by RUTH FAINLIGHT Poem Source First Line: The field is trampled over utterly Last Line: Unprecendented as all he hopes for. %the field is fertile. He must survive Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature FIELD, by MONG-LAN Poem Source First Line: Crows land like horses neighs Last Line: Rain quiet as wings %on her back Subject(s): Angels; Animals; Death; Fields; San Francisco; Vietnam FIELD, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The field is bounded by four hedges built of may Last Line: That travellers stare from the gate and cannot pass Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELD, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That's where I saw the lysander crash Last Line: That I can never show him Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELD AND FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you look down from the airplane you see lines Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELD AND FOREST, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you look down from the airplane you see lines Last Line: The trees can't tell the two of them apart Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELD DAY, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old farmer, nearing death, asked Last Line: I think I know what the shape of the field was %that made the old man weep Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mourning FIELD IN JUNE, by GERALD WILLIAM BULLETT Poem Source First Line: Greed is dumb at sight of so much gold Last Line: Let's joy and desire out of the dark prison Subject(s): Environment; Fields 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 FIELD NAMES, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: Our name-givers loved the world and loved the word Last Line: And stake, in some fragment of england, their loving claim Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELD OF RED POPPIES, by DANIEL SIMBO Poem Source First Line: I can see them now, I think, bowing against absence and trusting us Last Line: And it still matters. Because it's voiced Subject(s): Fields; Legends; Poppies FIELD QUILT, by HATTIE B. TERRILL Poem Text First Line: Late summer sends her mystic haze Last Line: Makes dark gray ribbon for the binding. Subject(s): Fields; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELD'S ON FIRE, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Source First Line: But it's so far, we can't be sure Last Line: Hoping it would stop ending like this Subject(s): Fields; Fire FIELD, TOMORROW, by GEORGE MACBETH Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I wanted the bare field out there to be mine Last Line: And their mouths, low and cropping, surrounded by flies Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIELDS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE Poem Text First Line: I am sister of the virgin field Last Line: Rearing the tawny grain. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELDS AT EVENING, by DAVID MORTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They wear their evening light as women wear Variant Title(s): These Fields At Evenin Subject(s): Fields FIELDS BEYOND ROSEWELL, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: Heat rises from the wide resplendent fields Last Line: Unstinting fields. We pick them anyhow Subject(s): Cattle; Europe; Fields; Harvest; Saint Kilda (scotland) FIELDS OF SORIA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold and arid land of soria Last Line: With happiness, with light and abundance! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel FIELDS OF SORIA: 3, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An undulating country, where the roads %do not conceal the travellers Last Line: With snowy summits blushing like the rose Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Roads; Travel FIELDS OF SORIA: 4, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, these are they that move 'twixt land and sky Last Line: Their shadows slowly lengthen as they pass Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Shadows; Travel FIELDS TOOK ON..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fields took on their final Last Line: With vanishing... Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Fields; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FIELDWALKING, by NORMAN JACKSON Poem Source First Line: The field quartered %by a nudge of ice Last Line: Finds this, a place to stray Subject(s): Environment; Fields FIFTH AVENUE-SPRING AFTERNOON, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world's running over with color Last Line: Rises your face! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Fields; Fifth Avenue, New York City; Flowers; Primroses; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas FLINTS, by JEREMY HOOKER Poem Source First Line: They are ploughed out, %or surface under surface Last Line: The core with is brutal edge %shaped the hand Subject(s): Environment; Fields FLOW GENTLY, SWEET AFTON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: As gandon walks the field, smoking sweet afton Last Line: From time to time Subject(s): Fields; Love; Walking FOREST AND FIELD, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green, watery jets of light let through Last Line: Its final period was a kiss. Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Woods FOURTH FIELD, by RUTH MOON KEMPHER Poem Source First Line: And the mice creep out astonished Last Line: Closing the gaps, impartial as rain, beneath Subject(s): Fields FRIENDLY ARE MEADOWS, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Friendly are meadows when the sun's gone in Last Line: To mere wonder at lightning and torrentous strong flying hail Subject(s): Environment; Fields GALLERIES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the blue a band %of a few black birds Last Line: Transparent, empty, blind, winged Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel GANDER DOWN, by JEREMY HOOKER Poem Source First Line: The ploughed chalk sweeping %and shelving is a shore Last Line: Larks rise singing from the ocean bed Subject(s): Environment; Fields GARDEN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: I return to the south %as to love Last Line: Of my wild and untamed heart Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening GENTIANS IN OCTOBER, by MARTHA H. HOLLINSHEAD Poem Text First Line: Fringed gentians in the meadow Last Line: Solace for the passing of the year. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GLEANERS, by MARTYN CRUCEFIX Poem Source First Line: In the distance, a man Last Line: But soon to insist they lift their heads, %scarved in the red and blue, %and imagine the artist Subject(s): Environment; Fields GOAT, by UMBERTO SABA Poem Source First Line: I have spoken with a goat Last Line: Of all living things and their trouble Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Goats GRASS STUDIES, by ANNE CORAY Poem Source First Line: If we can't be aether Last Line: The bend of the awn in wind Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Nature; Wheat GRASSHOPPERS, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grasshoppers go in many a thrumming spring Last Line: He springs, that bends until they touch the ground. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 CLOISONNE, by ADELINE M. JENNEY Poem Text First Line: Now god be thanked for this stir from the south Last Line: So much divine expectancy. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fields; God; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Green fields and running brooks Last Line: Sing green fields and running brooks! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brooks; Fields; Streams; Creeks; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GROTESQUE, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: With the first light on the skyline came the rapping of the sickles Last Line: "and the fields with harvest teeming have forgot them all too soon!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Fields; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Memory; Slavery; United States - Race Relations; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers; Serfs GROUND SENSE, by RODNEY JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have loved many women Subject(s): Death; Fields; Nature; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HABITAT: TIME AND PLACE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is out by the stand of windbreak-trees, under Last Line: It keeps me down to size Subject(s): Birds; California; Fields; Herbs; Nature HARES AT PLAY, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The birds are gone to bed, the cows are still Last Line: Sturts quick as fear, and seeks its hidden lair. Subject(s): Animals; Environment; Fields; Rabbits; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hares HARES BOXING, by ROGER GARFITT Poem Source First Line: This way and that %goes the runaway furrow Last Line: Jack hare squares up to dancing jack Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARVEST, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are mowing wheat %through the heavy days Last Line: They are mowing wheat %through the heavy days Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARVEST, by JAMES CROWDEN Poem Source First Line: A time for hay and a time for harvest Last Line: Eerie the desolation Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARVEST, by PAMELA GILLILAN Poem Source First Line: They were summers full of sunshine. In the fields Last Line: Who stood at laneside gates, %watched us without a smile Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARVEST AT MYNACHLOG, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: At last the women come with baskets Last Line: One moment in the eclipsing light Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARVEST HYMN, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spray the fields and scatter Last Line: Are ours from working hard Subject(s): Environment; Fields HARVEST SONG, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: A field of golden wheat there grows Last Line: Grind, o mill, keep grinding! Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Rain; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HAY, by GILLIAN CLARKE Poem Source First Line: Seven hold their breath Last Line: Where hay was cut Subject(s): Environment; Fields HAYING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rustic idyl of the ardent days Last Line: And all its face is odorous again. Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Summer; Sun; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HAYMAKING, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After night's thunder far away had rolled Last Line: Immortal in a picture of an old grange Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): England; Environment; Fields; Hay And Haymaking HERE IN THE FIELDS OF MY HOMELAND, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The virgin bodies will wash up on the old shore Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Home; Spain HERE IN THIS PASTURE, by MABEL WARD RUDD Poem Text First Line: Here in this pasture where wandering sheep Last Line: Of a tender god. Subject(s): Fields; God; Sanctuaries; Sheep; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HERTFORDSHIRE, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had forgotten hertfordshire Last Line: Than my mishandling of a gun Subject(s): Environment; Fields HIGHLAND SONGS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Through the white sierra %very fine snow %and wind in your face Last Line: We all are to see your face Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Mountains; Nature; Spain; Travel HILL FIELD, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look there! What a wheaten Last Line: To grind the fruits of earth Subject(s): Environment; Fields HOME-FIELD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But ah!The long gone happy hours Last Line: But there were still their day Subject(s): Environment; Fields HOME-THOUGHTS, FROM ABROAD, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in england, now that april's there Last Line: Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower! Variant Title(s): April In England Subject(s): April; England; Environment; Fields; Homesickness; May (month); Nature; Spring; Travel; Trees; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips 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 HORSES, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy here Last Line: A song, whatever is said Subject(s): Environment; Farm Life; Fields HUNTER MIND, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Good luck, hunter mind, trailing through field Last Line: By flight of the plumaged implausible bird. Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is so strange about a tree alone in an open field? Last Line: If I were a young animal ready to turn home at dusk Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Pheasants; Willow Trees I AM A MASON, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I am a mason, a priest of dust Last Line: Here the memory stands, the order, the signs of the future Subject(s): Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Memory; Shepherds And Shepherdesses I AM STEINKIND IN MY BLACK DRESS, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: And weathers with me, weathers with me into sand Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Sweden I GOT TWO VIELDS, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got two vields, an' I don't ceare Last Line: What squire mid have a bigger sheare! Subject(s): Environment; Fields IDAHO JEWELS, by KENNETH B. PLATT Poem Text First Line: Grass is not green, I tell you, until you've seen Last Line: The wonder of your fields of living green. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN A PASTURE UNDER A CRADLED MOON, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hung between pinetops Last Line: From loss. Subject(s): Birth; Children - Lost; Fields; Loss; Child Birth; Midwifery; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN A PASTURE, WILD TURKEYS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Flip cow pies, looking for bugs Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Turkeys IN A SUMMER SEASON WHEN THE SUN WAS MILD, by WILLIAM LANGLAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: And have whatever wits they need to work if they wanted Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN A WHEAT FIELD, by CHARLES DAVIS PLATT Poem Text First Line: A corn of wheat abides alone Last Line: We reap the fields where heroes lie. Subject(s): Fields; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN DECEMBER, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In december the stubble nearly is Last Line: With the hills heroically they ally Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN EARLY SPRING, WHEN THE ICE ON THE SNOWY MOUNTAINS, by PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And disciplines the acres he commands Alternate Author Name(s): Virgil; Vergil Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN FIELDS AND IN MUSEUMS, by J. S. VENIT Poem Source First Line: There are certain moments when a great calm Last Line: Stories budding like a hill with wheat Subject(s): Calm; Fields; Museums IN FIELDS OF SUMMER, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rises Last Line: A lark bursts up all dew. Subject(s): Fields; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN FLANDERS FIELDS, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders fields the poppies blow / between the crosses, row on row Last Line: In flanders fields. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Flanders, Belgium; Freedom; Patriotism; Soldiers; World War I; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Liberty; First World War IN MEMORY OF JAMES T. FIELDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a guest who may not stay Last Line: Love is one with holiness! Subject(s): Fields, James T. (1817-1881) IN OUR FARTHEST FIELD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The arrival of ten billion %grasshoppers Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fields; Grasshoppers; Nature IN PASSING, by ANITA OLACHEA BUCCI Poem Source First Line: The bee man sells his honey down the road, where the sign says 'park Last Line: Away; 'I wonder if anything's changed at all here in five hundred years.' Subject(s): Fields; Roads; Tourists; Travel IN SPANISH LANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The man of these lands, burning down the pines Last Line: Over which floats the roaming shade of cain Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel IN STONY COUNTRY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere else than these bare uplands dig wells Last Line: Pillows like these stones for dreaming of angels Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Sheep IN SUMMER (2), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night lies down / in the field when the moon Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN SUMMER (2), by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night lies down %in the field when the moon Last Line: Move on, stiff and %not yet awake Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN THAT OPEN FIELD, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Or there, or elsewhere. In my beginning Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN THE FALLOW FIELD, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I went down on my hands and knees Last Line: That a great forest fell before the plough Subject(s): Environment; Fields IN THE FIELDS, by CHARLOTTE MEW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, when I look at lovely things which pass Last Line: Over the fields. They come in spring. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Spring; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE MANNER OF JUAN DE MAIRENA, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Her mouth is made of fire Last Line: Graceful amazon of the frozen fields! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel IN THE MEADOWS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in the summer meadows Last Line: But death is in the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Fields; Life; Summer; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE WHITE WEST, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: In the upper garden, he said Last Line: Crossed out by birch trees Subject(s): Fields; Gardens And Gardening; West (u.s.) INDIAN SUMMER, by N. R. BAKER Poem Text First Line: Over the treetops baring for winter Last Line: Marks time, marks time. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas INLAND SEAS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a majesty in fields of wheat Last Line: The beauty of an ocean night anew. Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Seashore; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Beach; Coast; Shore INTERMEZZO; PASTORAL: 7. IN THE MEADOWS AT MANTUA, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But to have lain upon the grass Last Line: The meadow-grass at mantua! Subject(s): Fields; Mantua, Italy; Pastures; Meadows; Leas INVISIBLE GLOBE, by JEREMY HOOKER Poem Source First Line: On bare hillsides, pale fields Last Line: On a white ground %of endless beginnings Subject(s): Environment; Fields JOHN BARLEYCORN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There were three men came out of the west Last Line: Without a little barleycorn Subject(s): Environment; Fields JOURNAL, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many leaves of the cultivated cherry are turned yellow, and a very few Last Line: May work.' Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Rain; Seasons; Spring; Umbrellas KAGURA: INA FIELD, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In the brushwood field of ina Subject(s): Fields 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 KOROSTA KATZINA SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Yellow butterflies / over the blossoming virgin corn Last Line: All day shall come the rushing rain Subject(s): Butterflies;corn;fields;harvest;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs LAND, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When julius fabricius, sub-prefect of the weald Last Line: For whoever pays the taxes old mus' hobden owns the land Subject(s): Environment; Fields LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As a youth alvargonzalez Last Line: Sleeps by the chattering brook Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Feasts; Fields LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: EARTH, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in autumn Last Line: Orchard, beehives and fields Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Blood; Fields; Seasons; Spain LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: OTHER DAYS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Brambles are blossoming Last Line: Cannot sleep below the earth' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE HOUSE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The house of alvargonzalez Last Line: The poor fields of my country! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Home LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE MURDERERS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Juan and martin, the elder Last Line: Booms from boulder to boulder Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Assassination; Crime And Criminals; Fields; Spain; Wolves LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE RETURNED EMIGRANT, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of those cursed acres Last Line: Out to laguna negrea Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Fields; Spain LAND OF ALVARGONZALEZ: THE TRAVELER, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It is a winter evening Last Line: And grasps an iron hatchet Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Cold; Fields; Spain; Travel LAST MOWING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a place called far-away meadow Last Line: All shapes and colors of flowers, %I needn't call you by name Variant Title(s): Mowin Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Mowing And Mowers LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 1. LORD CRASHTON, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joining sir ulick's at the river's bend Last Line: And curses all things from his easy chair. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Despair; Fields; Landlords & Tenants; Portraits; Property; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Possessions LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 5. THE LOCH, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among those mountain-skirts a league away Last Line: Amongst whose watery stems the mallard feeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Fields; Islands; Mountains; Travel; Water; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips LEAVING THE FIELDS, by MARGARET J. HOEHN Poem Source First Line: My mother's hands were maps of the sweltering valley Last Line: Loss. She was strong and lean; candescent from within Subject(s): Fields; Greyhounds; Mothers; Travel LICORICE FIELDS AT PONTEFRACT, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the licorice fields at pontefract Last Line: And held in brown arms strong and bare %and wound with flaming ropes of hair Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Love LIFE ON THE LAKES: OUTWARD BOUND, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The waters lap by the pier's green side Last Line: In ghostly sheath. Subject(s): City & Town Life; Fields; Home; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips LINUM, by ALISON BRACKENBURY Poem Source First Line: It is not tall enough, it will not make a crop Last Line: It is not every day you can run through the sky Subject(s): Environment; Fields LOADING FEED IN THE GARAGE PARKING LOT, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: Bright sunlight on the grange parking lot Last Line: He would be right here at the grange again, this instant, no Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Horses; Labor And Laborers LOST ACRES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These acres, always again lost Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas LOST ACRES, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These acres, always again lost Last Line: But of the substance of mere words: %to walk there would be loss of sense Subject(s): Environment; Fields LOVE POET WRITES ABOUT A FIELD, by JOANNA FUHRMAN Poem Source First Line: Buckled tan strands of weeds brush Last Line: Grease on a matted feather shines Subject(s): Fields LOWLAND MOOD, by MEREDITH JONES Poem Text First Line: When dawn raises a crimson banner Last Line: It would beat them against the moon. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas LYRICS OF THE RAIL: 1. THE SCORNED TOWN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The green fields waver, break a space Last Line: A phantom never seen! Subject(s): Fields; Men; Railroads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Railways; Trains MARE, by VERNON WATKINS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mare lies down in the grass where the nest of the skylark Last Line: It is easy to darken the sun of her unborn foal at play Subject(s): Environment; Fields MEADOW IN DROUGHT, by RUTH BIDGOOD Poem Source First Line: There was still shade on the old path Last Line: The soft-leaved hour, the valley of abundance Subject(s): Environment; Fields MEADOW TALK, by NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH Poem Source First Line: Don't pick all the flowers!' cried daisy one day Subject(s): Animals; Fields MEADOW-SAFFRON, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The meadow is pretty but poisonous in the fall Last Line: This great field ill-flowered by the fall. Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas MEADOWS, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We'll go to the meadows, where cowslips Subject(s): Fields MID-APRIL IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out his heavenly sallyport Last Line: Right here by uncle cully's. Subject(s): Fields; Spring; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas MID-SUMMER MORNING RUN, by LORNA CROZIER Poem Source First Line: The blue spruce all lean Last Line: Holding their tongues Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields MILKWEED PODS IN NOVEMBER, by JEFF MANN Poem Source First Line: Across those shiver-seas %of pasture, we are boats Last Line: What peace to be so empty Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields MILLOM CRICKET FIELD, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The soft mouths of summer bite at the eyes Last Line: That he could watch me not was his joy then Subject(s): Environment; Fields MISUMMER MAGIC, by IVY ETHEL OLIVE EASTWICK Poem Source First Line: Midsummer eve, a year ago, my mother she commanded Last Line: Who showed themselves to me down in ragwort meadow Subject(s): Fields MONTHS WERE NAMED FOR, by BESMILR BRIGHAM Poem Source First Line: Time to plant corn Last Line: And big birds in the ripe corn %sang Subject(s): Corn; Fields; Harvest; Plantation Life; Soil; Wheat MOSS WAS A LITTLE MAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: He put the halter round her neck - so moss caught his mare Subject(s): Animals;fields;horseback Riding;travel; Pastures;meadows;leas;journeys;trips MOUNTAIN VILLAGE IN SOUTHERN FRANCE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow on a line of flat rooftops beneath a sky of driven clouds Last Line: Like bugs beneath doormats in rainy weather Subject(s): Fields; France; Solitude; Southern Hemisphere MOVING THE OLD ROSE, by PAUL HICKS Poem Source First Line: The soil is not soft in eastern kentucky Last Line: Of the old rose we are moving from his mother's house Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Appalachia; Fields; Kentucky MOWING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was never a sound beside the wood but one Last Line: My long scythe whispered and left the hay to make. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mowing & Mowers; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers MY MEADOW, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, it's still the loveliest meadow in all vermont Last Line: Maybe I have lived too long with the world Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plants; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Planting; Planters NAMING THE FIELD, by DAVID HART Poem Source First Line: We here call this grass, you can pick it Last Line: Air is, grass is, honeysuckle is-smell it %and I am Subject(s): Environment; Fields NEGLECTED PASTURES, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is a legacy of love Last Line: Picked out with drooping red lillies. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas NETTLES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was running in the field with the tall nettles Subject(s): Fields; Fights; Pastures; Meadows; Leas NETTLES, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was running in the field with the tall nettles Last Line: Even I wouldn't come upon it until years later Subject(s): Fields; Fights NEUTRAL, by JEREMY REED Poem Source First Line: Green grass growing back through a stubble field Last Line: The wild unclaimed kestrel's territory Subject(s): Environment; Fields NEW CEMETERY, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now that the town's dead Last Line: Making the thumped mud ring Subject(s): Environment; Fields NEW CROPS, by HELEN DUNMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O engines Last Line: Of harvests, you're the foreshore %of soaked soil leaching %undrinkable streams Subject(s): Environment; Fields NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: THE FIELDS AT EVENING, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dew-light lingers yet Subject(s): Fields; Evening; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Sunset; Twilight NO SPRINKLING OF BRIGHT WEEDS, by GEOFFREY GRIGSON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Earth-that old-hat phrase of superseded days Last Line: No sprinkling of bright weeds Subject(s): Environment; Fields NOTES ON A FIELD-MAP, by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Corrugated and clouded, %many acres foxed Last Line: This was home meadow. %silver dust Subject(s): Environment; Fields NOV-13, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Another year. The sower is casting Last Line: Mountains of sun, mountains of sun and stone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain NOVEMBER POEM, by ROCHELLE RATNER Poem Source First Line: This morning all the hunters Last Line: Then he says be careful Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Fields; Hunting; Rifles O HADA CIBERNETICA: 9, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: An unknown voice told me Last Line: I was not flung form the highest peak Subject(s): Fields OCTOBER, by HENRI DEWITT SAYLOR Poem Text First Line: There's a murmur in the meadow Last Line: For the pageantry of fall. Subject(s): Beauty; Fields; Gardens & Gardening; October; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ODYSSEY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: She trudged a long way through mucky fields to feed birds Last Line: She heard them singing afterwards. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Walking OIL FIELDS AT NIGHT, by ANNE SOUTHERNE TARDY Poem Text First Line: The night is dark, but in the east a glow Last Line: Earth yields her buried treasure, sobbing, sobbing. Subject(s): Oil Fields OLD BATTLE-FIELD, by JOSEPH TWADELL SHIPLEY Poem Text First Line: The way was footless up the steep Last Line: Our lady of tours. Subject(s): Fields; Soldiers; War; World War I; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War OLD MEADOWS, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: How much we have forgotten that we knew! Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Fields OLD SHOWFIELD, by TOM RAWLING Poem Source First Line: An aeroplane might still see where Last Line: What had gone on at ennerdale show Subject(s): Environment; Fields OLE BOSSIE COW, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Po' ole bossie cow's down in de marsh Last Line: A wee little bossie comes follerin' on behin'. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Cows; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas ON MERROW DOWN, by JOHN BURNSIDE Poem Source First Line: This is the moment of the cuckoo bee Last Line: Into the hoop of rain and yellow stars Subject(s): Environment; Fields ON THE HILL, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One, two, three, four-eleven Last Line: Coining in dead living seed %their immortality Subject(s): Environment; Fields ON THE PLAYING FIELD, by MARTHA RONK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the vicinity of a scar I never saw before Last Line: But the ball coming full force Subject(s): Fields; Play ON THE PRAIRIE, by HERBERT BATES Poem Text First Line: Bare, low, tawny hills Last Line: But when will the earth respond? Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Mountains; Prairies; Sunflowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Plains OUT IN A FIELD, AN IMMENSE EMPTY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: From no visible trees. I was scared Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fear; Fields; Nature OUT IN THE FIELDS [WITH GOD], by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little cares that fretted me Last Line: Out in the fields with god. Variant Title(s): Cares Subject(s): Fields; Religion; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Theology OUT IN THE FIELDS [WITH GOD], by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little cares that fretted me Last Line: Out in the fields with god. Variant Title(s): A Song From Sylvan Subject(s): Fields; Religion; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Theology OUT IN THE FIELDS [WITH GOD], by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The little cares that fretted me Last Line: Where ill thoughts die and good are born - %out in the fields with god! Subject(s): Fields; Religion OVER THE FIELDS, by MAURA DOOLEY Poem Source First Line: Whoever heard of a seamless garment? Last Line: Over the fields wires hum Subject(s): Environment; Fields PASTORAL CHARMS, by PEDRO VENEGAS DE SAAVEDRA Poem Source First Line: How happy he, his idle thoughts unreined Last Line: Man lives and dies, without a fear or hate Subject(s): Fields; Heaven; Peace PASTORAL: 3, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now standing on this hedgeside path Last Line: And sings with wood and field. Subject(s): Fields; Forests; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Woods PASTURE LANDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green pastures,' said the psalmist Last Line: And bend me at his feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PASTURELANDS, by HERBERT READ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We scurry over the pastures Last Line: We discover frog-spawn in the wet ditch Subject(s): Environment; Fields PASTURES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS Poem Text First Line: They are too lost in yesterday, - too dull Last Line: And flocks for lonely pastures where they wait. Subject(s): April; Fields; Memory; Stars; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PASTURES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: That grass is tender, soft and sweet Last Line: Lie down to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PASTURES GROW UP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Once the horses are gone Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fields; Nature PATH DISAPPEARED. THERE WAS A FIELD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Through the sky which blanketed the ground Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fields; Nature PATH THROUGH GRASS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source Last Line: Moves like an unreal thing through the summer, %moon bridges built over the green seas Subject(s): Fields; Roads PAUSE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boy needed / to stop by the road Last Line: Across the fields. Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Home; Roads; Travel; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips PEACHES, by JANE BROX Poem Source First Line: The handful of varieties that grow in this part of the country have Last Line: Peaches, their fragrance blooms at the back of your throat as it passes Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Peaches PETER'S FIELD, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Knows he who tills this lonely field Last Line: As a man unto his friend. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 STONE, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: The earth pushing up its stone Last Line: Not this year. Plant around it Subject(s): Boats; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Stones PIED BEAUTY, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Glory be to god for dappled things Last Line: Praise him. Subject(s): Beauty; Christianity; Environment; Fields; God; Language; Men; Nature; Religion; Worship; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Words; Vocabulary; Theology PILGRIM'S GUIDE TO CHAOS IN THE HEARTLAND: 3. GRASSLA6NDS, by JESSICA GOODFELLOW Poem Source First Line: We haven't pass7ed another car all day Last Line: Lost: where pointle7ssness %is the po36nt Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Goats PIONEER: THE VIGNETTE OF AN OIL-FIELD, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day the wagons have gone by Last Line: With church bells quietly ringing! Subject(s): Oil Fields; Pioneers PLANTING THE MEADOW, by MARY MAKOFSKE Poem Text First Line: I leave the formal garden of schedules Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PLOUGHING, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: The tractor-driver ploughs his road as straight as a %roman's Last Line: And lift again like torn papers blown in the wind Subject(s): Environment; Fields PLOUGHING THE ROUGHLANDS, by HELEN DUNMORE Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the four-wheeled drive crawler Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plowing & Plowmen; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PLOUGHING THE ROUGHLANDS, by HELEN DUNMORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's not the four-wheeled drive crawler Last Line: Fenced by the primary %colours of crawler and silo Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Nature; Plowing And Plowmen PLOUGHMAN, by PATRICK KAVANAGH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In these small fields Last Line: Over the drain %or through the ditch Alternate Author Name(s): Monaghan, Patrick Subject(s): Environment; Fields PLOUGHMAN AND WHALES, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: The ox went forward, a black block, eyes %bulging Last Line: Loaf, honey-comb, fleece, ale-jar, fiddle Subject(s): Environment; Fields PLOUGHMAN, PLOUGHMAN, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ploughman, ploughman, hold thy hand Last Line: Thy plough across earth's dream Subject(s): Environment; Fields PLOWING, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Crawling steady at a slight slant Last Line: Of straight black lines across a flat field Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Labor And Laborers; Plowing And Plowmen; Tractors PLOWING, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an old woman plowing a field Last Line: For the crumb of bread its rock would yield. Subject(s): Fields; Life; Plowing & Plowmen; Pastures; Meadows; Leas POET VISITS, by FRANCES HOROVITZ Poem Source First Line: Fields of foxy sorrel Last Line: You said, %'the vision comes and goes' Subject(s): Environment; Fields POMEGRANATE SONG, by ANDRE GIDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still for a long time you should seek Last Line: That we pop near the fire. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Happiness; Pomegranates; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Joy; Delight; Songs POORHOUSE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Upon the frozen earth the silent snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Home POPPY FIELDS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You say this poppy blooms so red Last Line: To rise, a poppy field of france? Subject(s): Fields; Poppies; Pastures; Meadows; Leas PORK CHOPS, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh mammy ca'line %a nigger polack ain't shit Subject(s): Fields; Labor Unions; Plantation Life; Strikes QUESTION IN A FIELD, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pasture, stone wall, and steeple Last Line: Or the horrible beautiful kind? Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas QUESTION IN A FIELD, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pasture, stone wall, and steeple Last Line: Tge heart-rending homely people, %or the horrible beautiful kind? Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Fields RAISING HUBBARD SQUASH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we could only spin a top Last Line: Till I can raise a hubbard squash. Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Plantation Life; Vegetables; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas REAL PROPERTY, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me about that harvest field Last Line: Sometimes when I have found a friend %I give a blade of corn away Subject(s): Fields RETURN TO EARTH, by INA DRAPER DEFOE Poem Text First Line: I am the cool, green earth where lovers lie Last Line: To suckle once and then return to me. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas RETURNING TO FIELDS AND GARDENS (1), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young, I did not fit in Last Line: Cage, but now, at last, can return to nature Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Past RETURNING TO FIELDS AND GARDENS (2), by T'AO CH'IEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I plant beans below the southern hill: Last Line: I choose not to avoid anything that comes Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening REVEREND DAN RICE, by BRUCE RICE Poem Source First Line: Up first thing and ride Last Line: Through brief shoals of aspen Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Harvest; Rice REVISITING THE FIELD (2), by WALTER DAVID PAVLICH Poem Source First Line: I come back to cold lights Last Line: Didn't we all block big as trees? Subject(s): Baseball; Fields; Memory; Sports RHUBARB RHUBARB, by RUTH PITTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Return, return, o rhubarb fields Last Line: I think it looked so nice! Subject(s): Environment; Fields RILEY, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Down in the water-meadows riley Last Line: Never know now, said the jay. Never know Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Environment; Fields ROSEHIPS, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This false fruit, tear-shaped and smooth as a glass eye, cracks like pottery Last Line: Of a myopic child-the boy who rolls these pods, like marbles, across the %ground, and watches the sq Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Roses; Thorns RURAL LIFE, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grant indeed that fields and flocks have charms Last Line: Exposing most, when most it gilds distress Subject(s): Environment; Fields RURAL PROGRESS; OR WE'RE LIVIN' 'MOST IN TOWN, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: So you're sorry for us fellows Last Line: Are a-livin' 'most in town. Subject(s): Camping; Country Life; Fields; Towns; Camps; Summer Camps; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SABBATH, 1985, VI, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have walked so many times, my boy Last Line: Nothing of the season but to be Subject(s): Forests; Fields; Nature; Conservation SARGASSO FIELDS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: And then, %the aroma, the waves Last Line: And I awoke in the midst of all homelands, %amid all sargasso fields Subject(s): Fields; Home; Memory SCARECROW, by MICHAEL HAMBURGER Poem Source First Line: Stuck up? Maybe. But not proud Last Line: If they thought it could, you'd never see me again Subject(s): Environment; Fields SCARECROW, by CLIVE SANSOM Poem Source First Line: Dressed in the farmer's ancient coat Last Line: And turns in the wind as the wind turns Subject(s): Environment; Fields SCARECROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He strides across the grassy corn Last Line: Is spring not hard enough to bear %for one at autumn of his year? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Scarecrows SCYTHING, by JAMES CROWDEN Poem Source First Line: Gently we feel the edge of dawn creep forward Last Line: Creeping forward into the shadow's singing. %swish swish swish swish Subject(s): Environment; Fields SEA MEADOWS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I love all meadows Last Line: Reaching to the sea. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SEA SIMILIZED TO MEADOWS AND PASTURES, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The waves, like ridges of plow'd land, are high Last Line: But quickly run for shelter to a tree: %so ships at anchor lie upon the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Fields; Sea SEARCHERS, by ANNABEL THOMAS Poem Source First Line: From conner's ridge high above the foggy bottom Last Line: My need to ask him why Subject(s): Cattle; Farm Life; Fields SEPTEMBER, by JOHN BURNSIDE Poem Source First Line: The first owls are working the dusk Last Line: Hunting for blood and warmth, in the yellow bracken Subject(s): Environment; Fields SEPTEMBER, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Crickets are making / the merriest din Last Line: September is here. Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 SHEEP IN THE WINTER NIGHT, by TOM HENNEN Poem Source First Line: Inside the barn the sheep were standing, pushed close to one another Last Line: Stand on end was keeping the answer to itself Subject(s): Animals; Barns; Fields; Sheep SHOVEL PEOPLE, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA Poem Source First Line: It happened by accident: I was in the middle Last Line: And I dreamed about how life would be, could be, with %the s Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Gardens And Gardening; Labor And Laborers; Shovels SIMPLE FIELD THAT I SHALL BUY, by MILDRED MCNEAL SWEENEY Poem Source Subject(s): Fields SITTING IN A FIELD ON A WINDY DAY, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surge of leaves; the grass leanng all one way Subject(s): Fields; Wind; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SKYLARK, by KATRINA PORTEOUS Poem Source First Line: Suddenly above the fields you're pouring Last Line: Full of its sudden fall, silent fields Subject(s): Environment; Fields SLIM FOOT, by LAURA BENET Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know a meadow Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SO I BLOW SMOKE IN HER FACE, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: In the morning I race lii'litsoi across the open plain near the windmill. The Last Line: Feels good. My horse is strong and happily we make the climb up the %chooshgai Subject(s): Family Life; Fields; Horseback Riding; Native Americans - Reservations; New Mexico SOMETIMES I'M DRAGGED. SOMETIMES I'M VERY DRAGGED. THE SUN HITS ME, by SESSHU FOSTER Poem Source Last Line: #name? Subject(s): Fields; Friendship; Fruit; Harvest SONG OF RENEWAL: 1, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked near sunset through wet fields Last Line: "the bones that you would bury there will never turn to dust." Subject(s): Death; Fields; Graves; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones SONG OF RENEWAL: 2, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the fields when morning freshened Last Line: "and ruined spring renews her flower and anxious eyes are once more glad." Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fields; Memory; Cadavers; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SONG OF THE HOP FIELDS, by INA DRAPER DEFOE Poem Text First Line: A harvest moon rose gracefully ... Last Line: Where dawn revealed a wall of green the night found string and props. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SONG OF THE WHEAT, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We have sung the song of the droving days Last Line: That say: 'thank god for wheat!' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Fields; Singing & Singers; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SONGS OF THE UPPER DUERO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The miller is my lover Last Line: Dance. Sound the flute %and drum Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel SQUARE, by JIM JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Bales, boxcars, red barns, white farmhouses, grain elevators, summer fal Last Line: A good meal, a short woman Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Wheat ST LUKE'S SUMMER, by NORMAN NICHOLSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The low sun leans across the slanting field Last Line: Never-predicted poetry is sown Subject(s): Environment; Fields STACKING THE STRAW, by AMY CLAMPITT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In those days the oatfields Last Line: That everything he'd ever done was straw Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Hay And Haymaking STAY IN ZORN, by FRIEDERIKE MAYROCKER Poem Source First Line: Broad-chested across gaping chaos, he said, we blazed the Last Line: The bora was blowing fiercely, he said, and we had trouble %finding our way Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Nature; Paintings And Painters STRUGGLING WHEAT, by JEANNE PERDRIEL-VAISSIERE Poem Source First Line: Struggling wheat, weighed down with rain Last Line: Your gallant life is worthy of Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Wheat STUBBLE FIRES, by JOHN PETER SCUPHAM Poem Source First Line: Contours break the skin Last Line: Picked to the black-bone Subject(s): Environment; Fields SUBURBAN'S LIFE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: Across his field the farmer trudged Last Line: For the child of the city and land. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Suburbs; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked Last Line: Go talking and have easy hours Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry And Poets; Walking TELLING THE BEES, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: When the old man draws his last breath Last Line: Wondering which humming body might be his Subject(s): Bees; Fields; Honey; Insects TEOFILO, by VICTOR M. VALLE Poem Source First Line: My uncle wanted to give me his tools Last Line: Drinks pulque with young men who yearn for home Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Fields 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 BATTLEFIELDS, by MAX EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: You never saw the summer dance and sing Last Line: Slave to no thought softer than her own. Subject(s): Fields; War; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE BEANFIELD, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beanfield in blossom smells as sweet Last Line: To battered footpaths crossing o'er the fields. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE BLOODY FIELD OF WHEOGO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The moon rides high in a starry sky Last Line: So we'll take the boy instead!' Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;fields;grief;hunting; Pastures;meadows;leas;sorrow;sadness;hunters THE BRIGHT FIELD, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen the sun break through Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE BUCK, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've tracked you up the wind, my buck Last Line: You gallant little beast! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Animals; Deer; Fields; Hunting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters THE CABBAGE FIELD, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both taine and the inland english child Last Line: Anything but the sea? Subject(s): Cabbage; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE CARTOGRAPHER OF THE MEADOWS, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As he moves to amber from his resinoujs drowning Subject(s): Fields; Maps THE COUNTRY WALK, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning's fair, the lusty sun Last Line: And not alone and solitary stray! Variant Title(s): The Yellow Barn Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Country Life; Fields; Mountains; Wood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE DESERTED PASTURE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the stony pasture Last Line: To pitch their tents therein. Subject(s): Fields; Nature - Religious Aspects; Perseverance; War; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE DESOLATE FIELD, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vast and grey, the sky Last Line: Yearning silently over me. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 FAIRY IN THE MEADOW, by ROSE FYLEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He came, stepping over the tall grasses Last Line: Why was he afraid of me? Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Fields; Humanity; Supernatural; Elves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FALLOW FIELD, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The sun comes up and the sun goes down Last Line: When I give my gold to the golden-rod. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIELD OF PINKIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely eve! As loath to quit a scene Last Line: And all shall walk in light—the light from heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Fields; Peace; Pinkie, Battle Of (1547); Scotland; Warwickshire, England; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIELD-PATH, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tripping down the field-path Last Line: Lost is now to me! Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIELDS, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though wisdom underfoot Last Line: Small as forget-me-nots. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I take my walks abroad Last Line: And there the wonder ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Fields; Friendship; God; Longing; Praise; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIELDS OF EVEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O stiller than the fields that lie Last Line: May find a god to love him! Subject(s): Fields; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FLEECE: BOOK 1, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The care of sheep, the labours of the loom Last Line: To listen; and to view the joyous scene. Subject(s): Animals; Country Life; Fields; Food & Eating; Hunting; Sheep; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Hunters THE FOOTBALL CASABIANCA, by WILBUR DICK NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy stood on the football field Last Line: "they get some gasoline!" Subject(s): College Sports; Fields; Football; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE GRASS COMES, by A. JEAN HOLMES Poem Text First Line: The grass, the glad green grass Last Line: Has washed away the brown. Subject(s): April; Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE GRASSHOPPER AND CRICKET, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poetry of earth is never dead Last Line: The grasshopper's among some grassy hills. Variant Title(s): On The Grasshopper And Cricket Subject(s): Crickets; Environment; Fields; Grasshoppers; Insects; Nature; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE GREEN CORNFIELD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth was green, the sky was blue Last Line: And listened longer than I did. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE HARVEST, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Summer, the alchemist, achieves once more Last Line: Must blossom swiftly with great shocks of grain. Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LABORER, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: We have a bed, and a baby too Last Line: Only time! Subject(s): Family Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Time; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers THE LABORER, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the yoke, with arrow and share near by Last Line: In sunless fields of erebus forlorn. Subject(s): Fields; Labor & Laborers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers THE LARK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood knee-deep within a field of grain Last Line: Make subtle music for my brooding ear. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Larks; Life; Singing & Singers; Sky; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks; Songs THE LAST LULLABY, by HENRY BATAILLE Poem Text First Line: Sing sweetly, killore Last Line: With a black magpie on a bough. Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Singing & Singers; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Songs THE LAST MOWING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a place called far-away meadow Last Line: I needn’t call you by name Variant Title(s): Mowing Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Mowing & Mowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Lawn Mowers 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 LEAVES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first dead leaves of the year are down! Last Line: Can the world end in a night? Subject(s): Autumn; Fields; Leaves; Life; Seasons; Summer; Sun; Fall; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE LICORICE FIELDS AT PONTEFRACT, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the licorice fields at pontefract Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Love; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 TIMBER, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: Hickory and walnut, the thicket's mass Last Line: Thro' open glades to splashing feet. Subject(s): Fields; Plums; Prairies; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Plum Trees; Plains; Paths; Trails THE MEADOW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Leafy with little clouds, the sky Last Line: While babbling nonsense on the way. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE MEADOWS IN SPRING, by EDWARD FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Tis a dull sight / to see the year dying Last Line: The meadows again! Variant Title(s): Old Song;for A New Year's Eve;song Of The Year Subject(s): Fields; Spring; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE MOCKING BIRD, by FREDERIC SAUSER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The heat is overwhelming Last Line: And from the cactus the call of the mocking-birds. Alternate Author Name(s): Cendrars, Blaise Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Fields; Mockingbirds; Singing & Singers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE MORNING FIELDS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I looked from my window Last Line: I thought them dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fields; Morning; Sleep; Waking; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE OIL FIRE, by GEORGE BOND Poem Text First Line: The lightning strikes, a sudden blinding flash Last Line: Is smouldering ruin, shriveled, seared and black. Subject(s): Fire; Oil Fields THE PILGRIM OF THE UPLAND MEADOWS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Diverging trails we climb Last Line: Or else a quiet stone. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE POPLAR FIELD, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poplars are felled, farewell to the shade Last Line: Have a being less durable even than he. Subject(s): Aging; Environment; Fields; Poplar Trees; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE POPPY FIELDS OF SERGEY, by KATE SLAUGHTER MCKINNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh! The poppy fields of sergey Last Line: Where the blood-red poppies grow. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fields; Poppies; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE REFINERY, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thirsty and languorous after their long black sleep Subject(s): Oil Fields; Social Commentaries THE SCARECROW, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poet's Biography First Line: He strides across the grassy corn Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Scarecrows; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SILVER WAIN, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: When russet wagons left the lammas field Last Line: An angel walking by a silver wain. Subject(s): Fields; Knights & Knighthood; Plowing & Plowmen; Silver; Wagons; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SKYLARK, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rolls and harrows lie at rest beside Last Line: Lies safely, with the leveret, in the corn. Subject(s): Birds; Birds' Nests; Environment; Fields; Larks; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Skylarks THE STUBBLE FIELD, by ETHEL GREEN RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: The land lies silent to the west Last Line: Giant toad-stools in the sun. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO, by JAMES GRAINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And pity the poor planter when the blast Last Line: Bugs of uncommon shape. Subject(s): Fields; Insects; Nature; Plague; Plantation Life; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs THE SUN USED TO SHINE, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun used to shine while we two walked Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Herefordshire, England; Poetry & Poets; Walking; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SWEET-BRIAR, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sweet-briar flowering Last Line: Held the trusting heart of a little child. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Daisies; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Perfume; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE SWING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was like floating in a blessed dream to roam Last Line: So wide a sky, so great a tree. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Family Life; Fields; Home; Trees; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE TENT ON THE BEACH: 1, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not sin, in this half-playful strain Last Line: "we'll pitch this tent of ours in type another year." Subject(s): Fields, James T. (1817-1881); New Hampshire; Seashore; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Beach; Coast; Shore THE VIELD PATH, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here oonce did sound sweet words, a-spoke Last Line: Wer here so long as I can mind. Subject(s): Fields; Memory; Nostalgia; Roads; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Paths; Trails THE WALL-FLOWER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wall-flower - the wall-flower Last Line: Thou art the flower for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones THE WAYSIDE WEEDS, by ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE Poem Text First Line: A dreamy day with opalescent sky Last Line: And kinship of all floral things assert. Subject(s): Fields; Weeds; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THEATER OF THE FIELD, by MARK IRWIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This is the month of the earth from which come cows Last Line: White as a page, exceeds those words for miles Subject(s): Fields; Theater And Theaters THERE IN THE HIGHLANDS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sad, tired, pensive, old Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Fields; Spain; Travel THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF SHIELDS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Followed after that person of shields Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Old Age; Travel THESE DAYS, by LEON STOKESBURY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These days I live on top of a piney ridge Last Line: Of an engine grinding down. That takes my breath away Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fields; Geography; Georgia (state); Travel THEY ARE PLOUGHING, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the morning fields, where fiery red a spray Last Line: Sends its slight tinkling song that shines like gold Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J. Subject(s): Environment; Fields THING IN THE GAP-STONE STILE, by ALICE OSWALD Poem Source First Line: I took the giant's walk on top of world Last Line: Abstracted on a gap-stone between fields Subject(s): Environment; Fields THIS LONELY ACRE, by BERT HENDERSON Poem Text Last Line: And this lone acre shall return to dust. Subject(s): Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THISTLE, by LAURIE LEE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thistle, blue bunch of daggers Last Line: Fevers of long lost fields Subject(s): Environment; Fields THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, riding in a car, in wisconsin Last Line: And the ditches along the road half full of a private snow Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, riding in a car, in wisconsin Last Line: And the ditches along the road half full of a private snow Subject(s): Environment; Fields THROUGH ALL THE MEADOWS..., by SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: In thank-offering they go Subject(s): Environment; Fields TO A FAT LADY SEEN FROM THE TRAIN, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O why do you walk through the fields in gloves Last Line: Missing so much and so much? Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Obesity; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO A MOUSE, ON TURNING HER UP IN HER NEST WITH THE PLOUGH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, sleeket, cowran, tim'rous beastie Last Line: I guess an' fear. Variant Title(s): To A Field-mouse Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mice; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO JAMES T. FIELDS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well thought! Who would not rather hear Last Line: Where sweet with flowers the fields extend. Subject(s): Fields, James T. (1817-1881) TO MEADOWS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have been fresh and green Last Line: Your poor estates alone. Variant Title(s): Honeysuckle: Sweetness Of Disposition;to Meddowes Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO PRIAPUS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in thy green enclosure here Last Line: Let these to enter and to steal be bold! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Horses; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO THE FONT-GEORGES, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent fields where I was glad Last Line: Silver flow'rs. Subject(s): Children; Fields; Love; Childhood; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TO THE RIGHT HON. CHARLES LORD HALIFAX: SALUTE TO PROPERTY, by AMBROSE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But who advances next, with cheerful grace Last Line: Her fleets were freighted, and her fields were till'd. Alternate Author Name(s): Phillips, Ambrose; Nam-by-pam-by Subject(s): Fields; Property; Wealth; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Possessions; Riches; Fortunes 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. IN A SCOTCH-FIR WOOD, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a scotch-fir wood Last Line: Go hence, and in the centuries come again! Subject(s): Fields; Nature; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TOWN AND COUNTRY, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The flowers are blooming in the woods, the Last Line: "when the sun goes down, if I can chase myself to town, to see the movie shows." Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Towns; Pastures; Meadows; Leas TRAIN WINDOW GOING AND COMING, SELS, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ride backwards to see what I'm missing Last Line: I look forward to going back, either way Subject(s): Commuters; Fields; Nature; Railroads; Tourists; Travel TRANSFORMATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The butterflies are buttercups, wind-blown Last Line: Are butterflies flight-weary, seeking rest. Subject(s): Butterflies; Fields; Insects; Summer; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Bugs TREE OF LIFE, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: I was born in a wheat field snapping my fingers Last Line: I stepped on white mushrooms, watching the clouds of dust, %touching branches from the room's window Subject(s): Fields; Trees TURNIP-HEADS, by KAREN FLEUR ADCOCK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here are the ploughed fields of middle england Last Line: Whatever their message was, we seem to have missed it Alternate Author Name(s): Adcock, Fleur Subject(s): Environment; Fields TWO IN THE CAMPAGNA, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder do you feel today / as I have felt since, hand in hand Last Line: Of finite hearts that yearn. Subject(s): Fields; Love; Rome, Italy; Pastures; Meadows; Leas UP ON THE DOWNS, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up on the downs the red-eyes kestrels hover Last Line: On the chalk downland bare Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Environment; Fields UP THERE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On cotswold edge there is a field and that Last Line: By the coppice there, level with the flat of the hill Subject(s): Environment; Fields VERMONT WILD FLOWERS IN AUGUST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild flowers all vermonters love Last Line: The chickory and lady's lace. Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Mountain Life - Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas 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 VIKING FIELD, by KEVIN CROSSLEY-HOLLAND Poem Source First Line: Not only thistles Last Line: On her own %double-headed axe Subject(s): Environment; Fields VIRGIN FIELD, by ARTHUR BRAZIEL Poem Source First Line: Untouched by the plow Subject(s): Fields VOICE OF SUMMER, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this one of all fields I know the best Last Line: Had lost a word that had no synonym Subject(s): Environment; Fields W.C. FIELDS IN FRENCH LIGHT, SELS., by ROCHELLE OWENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is for me poetry Last Line: Will cause crumbling & erosion %of the world Subject(s): Fields, W. C. (1879-1946) WAITING FOR THE HARVESTER, by PETER ABBS Poem Source First Line: Here I stood in the crew-cut stubble Last Line: The damp blades whirring above dry bone Subject(s): Environment; Fields WALKING FIELDS AT NIGHT SOUTH OF HAMPTON, IOWA, by STEVE GEHRKE Poem Source First Line: The last of the year's wheat is drought-bruised and bolted Last Line: I say, if there never were stars I would %not miss them Subject(s): Bodies; Fields; Iowa; Physical Disabilities; Walking WALKING ON SUNDAY, by N. S. JACKSON Poem Source First Line: In my wild yahooing days Last Line: I have changed a little, too Subject(s): Environment; Fields 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 WATERCOLOR OF GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Environment; Fields; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WATERCOLOR OF GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There, spring lambs jam the sheepfold. In air Last Line: The owl shall stoop from his turret, the rat cry out Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cambridge, England; Environment; Fields WE FIELD-WOMEN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it rained Last Line: And pails, and songs, and love-too rash: %how it shone! Subject(s): Environment; Fields WE HAVE WALKED SO MANY TIMES, MY BOY, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Nothing of the season but to be Subject(s): Environment; Fields WHAT IT TAKES, by DOROTHY F. RAND Poem Text First Line: Here lies the harvest at your feet Last Line: Ripe proof of friendly service through the year. Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHAT MATTER?, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure I'm sorry the crathur was scared, but I Last Line: Ah what matter? Sure what should it matter? What matter, what matter at all? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Fields; Pets; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHEAT FIELD, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Standing in a field of wheat Last Line: And in the whole scene, my daughter's %dark hair was the only dark thing Subject(s): Fields; Mothers And Daughters; Wheat WHEAT FIELDS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is an honest dignity in wheat Last Line: And for a fertile yield breathe thanks to god. Subject(s): Bread; Fields; Food & Eating; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHITE BIRCHES, by MARY BRADLEY BRAMHALL Poem Text First Line: Against the upper darkness - the dark pines Last Line: On this morning of silver rain. Subject(s): Birch Trees; Fields; Pine Trees; Rain; Trees; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WHITE CLOUDS, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: White sheep, dear sheep, with snowy fleece Last Line: Would you forsake them there?' Subject(s): Fields; Sheep; Shepherds And Shepherdesses WHITE ITHAKA, by TOMAZ SALAMUN Poem Source First Line: Stars to salute me Last Line: The chewing of deer, white ithaka Subject(s): Fields; Sheep WIDER FIELDS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young men drift away from home; they Last Line: The-hole! Subject(s): Farewell; Fields; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Youth; Parting; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Journeys; Trips WILD ASTERS, by SARA V. PRUESER Poem Text First Line: They fly a silent retreat Last Line: With blossoms rare and select. Subject(s): Asters; Colors; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WILD FLOWERS, by GERTRUDE A. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Over the fields gay with violets, tulips and fern Last Line: Knowing that life will be short, but if merry -- amen! Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WINTER QUIET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Limb to limb, mouth to mouth Last Line: The ecstasy. Subject(s): Fields; Winter WITHOUT REGRET, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nights, by the light of whatever would burn Last Line: Baskets of wicker, baskets of straw. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Fields; Pastures; Meadows; Leas WITHOUT US, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: In the time it takes for a leaf to fall from a maple tree after a hard gust Last Line: Eyes aglow, watching for signs of weakness %red ants running on a bear's tongue. Fields of broccoli Subject(s): Animals; Fields; Nature WOMAN IN A MUSTARD FIELD, by ALICE OSWALD Poem Source First Line: From love to light my element Last Line: That grows without your love Subject(s): Environment; Fields |
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