The house should be white, The barn red, The farm-carts blue, There should be a hillock for the dead, And a bed-room view, Old apple-trees, A rooster to crow, Down by the cornfield A sunflower row, Cows each with her bell, A fat plow horse, A maiden birch wood And a young cat of course, Hard work in the field, Good sleep in the bed -- And a ship weather-vane To swing overhead. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HIS CONTENT IN THE COUNTRY by ROBERT HERRICK SONGS OF THE SEA CHILDREN: 73 by BLISS CARMAN DEFEAT by ETHEL TONRY CARPENTER PROSPECT by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK SONNET by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) IN MEMORIAM by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK UPON THE TRANSLATION OF THE PSALMS BY SIR PHILIP SYDNEY & HIS SISTER by JOHN DONNE |