Famous Short Farm Poems

Famous Short Farm Poems. Short Farm Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Farm short poems

A Farm-Picture  

 THROUGH the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, 
A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; 
And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.

A FARM-HOUSE ON THE WEI RIVER  

In the slant of the sun on the country-side, 
Cattle and sheep trail home along the lane; 
And a rugged old man in a thatch door 
Leans on a staff and thinks of his son, the herdboy.
 
There are whirring pheasants? full wheat-ears, 
Silk-worms asleep, pared mulberry-leaves.
 
And the farmers, returning with hoes on their shoulders, 
Hail one another familiarly.
 
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No wonder I long for the simple life 
And am sighing the old song, Oh, to go Back Again! 

The Farm Womans Winter  

 I

If seasons all were summers, 
And leaves would never fall, 
And hopping casement-comers 
Were foodless not at all, 
And fragile folk might be here 
That white winds bid depart; 
Then one I used to see here 
Would warm my wasted heart!

II

One frail, who, bravely tilling 
Long hours in gripping gusts, 
Was mastered by their chilling, 
And now his ploughshare rusts.
 
So savage winter catches 
The breath of limber things, 
And what I love he snatches, 
And what I love not, brings.

Daybreak In A Garden  

 I heard the farm cocks crowing, loud, and faint, and thin,
When hooded night was going and one clear planet winked:
I heard shrill notes begin down the spired wood distinct,
When cloudy shoals were chinked and gilt with fires of day.

White-misted was the weald; the lawns were silver-grey;
The lark his lonely field for heaven had forsaken;
And the wind upon its way whispered the boughs of may,
And touched the nodding peony-flowers to bid them waken.

Dead Cow Farm  

 An ancient saga tells us how
In the beginning the First Cow 
(For nothing living yet had birth 
But Elemental Cow on earth) 
Began to lick cold stones and mud:
Under her warm tongue flesh and blood 
Blossomed, a miracle to believe: 
And so was Adam born, and Eve.
 
Here now is chaos once again, 
Primeval mud, cold stones and rain.

Here flesh decays and blood drips red, 
And the Cow’s dead, the old Cow’s dead.

Lying In A Hammock At William Duffys Farm In Pine Island Minnesota  

 Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly,
Asleep on the black trunk,
blowing like a leaf in green shadow.

Down the ravine behind the empty house,
The cowbells follow one another
Into the distances of the afternoon.

To my right,
In a field of sunlight between two pines,
The droppings of last year's horses
Blaze up into golden stones.

I lean back, as the evening darkens and comes on.

A chicken hawk floats over, looking for home.

I have wasted my life.

Answer  

 Between two nights
the brief day.

The farm is there.

And in the thicket, a snare
the hunter set for us.


Noon’s desert.

It still warms the stone.

Chirping in the wind,
buzz of a guitar
down the hillside.


The slow match
of withered foliage
glows against the wall.

Salt-white air.

Fall’s arrowheads,
the crane’s migration.


In bright tree limbs
the tolling hour has faded.

Upon their clockwork
spiders lay
the veils of dead brides.

The Products of my Farm are these  

 The Products of my Farm are these
Sufficient for my Own
And here and there a Benefit
Unto a Neighbor's Bin.


With Us, 'tis Harvest all the Year
For when the Frosts begin
We just reverse the Zodiac
And fetch the Acres in.

Epitaphium Erotii  

 HERE lies Erotion, whom at six years old
Fate pilfered.
 Stranger (when I too am cold,
Who shall succeed me in my rural field),
To this small spirit annual honours yield!
Bright be thy hearth, hale be thy babes, I crave
And this, in thy green farm, the only grave.

Two butterflies went out at Noon --  

 Two butterflies went out at Noon --
And waltzed upon a Farm --
Then stepped straight through the Firmament
And rested, on a Beam --

And then -- together bore away
Upon a shining Sea --
Though never yet, in any Port --
Their coming, mentioned -- be --

If spoken by the distant Bird --
If met in Ether Sea
By Frigate, or by Merchantman --
No notice -- was -- to me --

Muier  

 Oh, black Persian cat! 
Was not your life 
already cursed with offspring? 
We took you for rest to that old 
Yankee farm,—so lonely 
and with so many field mice 
in the long grass—
and you return to us 
in this condition—! 

Oh, black Persian cat.

Whiffletree  

 GIVE me your anathema.

Speak new damnations on my head.

The evening mist in the hills is soft.

The boulders on the road say communion.

The farm dogs look out of their eyes and keep thoughts from the corn cribs.

Dirt of the reeling earth holds horseshoes.

The rings in the whiffletree count their secrets.

Come on, you.