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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RECESS, by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL First Line: She has become as a barren tree Last Line: And helpless nestlings to hover. | |||
She has become as a barren tree On a bleak hillside in December -- One with no home-bound, work-worn Traveller to cover -- One with no nestling to hover. There is ample sap at her roots Waiting to rise at the reach Of recurring spring ... But she is tired, cold, out-worn, Not rousing, nor caring to remember That spring follows close on December -- That she may be again, a little later, Verdant, voluptuous shelter and mother -- With torn travellers to cover And helpless nestlings to hover. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AND LOCUSTS BLOOM TOMORROW by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL GROWTH by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL RAIN ON FALL NIGHTS by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL COVERING WINGS by KATHERINE MANSFIELD THE STORY OF THE ASHES AND THE FLAME by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON MY MOTHER, 1930 by KAREN SWENSON ASOLANDO: EPILOGUE by ROBERT BROWNING DIBDIN'S GHOST by EUGENE FIELD DISARMAMENT by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER |
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