Poem Remembered from Neighbouring Brant County



Harvest Time
Emily Pauline Johnson


Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain,
Wrapped in her mantle of golden grain,

Wearied of pleasuring weeks away,
Summer is lying asleep to-day,—

Where winds come sweet from the wild-rose briers
And the smoke of the far-off prairies fires;

Yellow her hair as the golden rod,
And brown her cheeks as the prairie sod;

Purple her eyes as the mists that dram
At the edge of some laggard sun-drowned stream;

But over their depths the lashes sweep,
For Summer is lying to-day asleep.

The north wind kisses her rosy mouth,
His rival frowns in the far-off south,

And comes caressing her sunburnt cheek,
And Summer awakes for one short week,—

Awakes and gathers her wealth of grain,
Then sleeps and dreams for a year again

About this poem

Marvelous thoughts from an Indian, princess

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Submitted by dougb.72572 on January 05, 2023

Modified on March 17, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX AA BB CC DD XX EE FF GG AX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 763
Words 156
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2

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