farming
| Title | First Line | Theme(s) |
|---|---|---|
| The Reason For Stars | "I never wonder a lot about stars" | diligence farming |
| Plowman | "This is plowing time and I am plowing" | farming planting |
| Reflection | "I think I shall decide to stay" | farming nature |
| Country Men | "The pussy willows show again" | farming spring |
| Seeding | "The morning sun looks in on me" | farming planting |
| Invocation | "Come, you farmers, let us sing together" | farming religion |
| The Young Old-Timer | "His hands seek each other under his overall bib" | farming resentment |
| Silver Maples | "Rain fingers stroke our grey bodies" | farming nature |
| The Same in This As Other Lands | "He bows his head against the wind" | farming work |
| The Search | "Here on the hillside is a square of ground" | farming neighbors |
| Between Snow and Stars | "The sun trips and falls headlong down the sky" | animals farming |
| Choosing | "The stolid farmer took his hoe" | farming choice |
| The Vine | "His wife and young son in his heart, the future riding his shoulders" | farming nature |
| Burn the Cocoons | "The sun waits in the sky for me" | farming planting |
| Late Spring | "I tried to sow the oats and grass this year" | farming drought |
| The Debtor | "These leaden days when the sky is overcast" | farming debt |
| What Was That? | "Never was so much hubbub in the morning," | work farming |
| Success | "When I come home from work at close of day" | farming animals |
| The Happy Farmer | "This farm where I live" | farming poverty |
| The Questioner | "When evening bows its head so does the farmer," | farming significance |
| The Barn | "It was like a house but larger and not so tame," | farming imagination |
| The Reminder | "When the day finally ended I felt wet and cold" | love farming |
| The Unprotected | "The sun at noon" | farming responsibility |
| Vigilance | "Rocks grow expensive" | farming nature |
| Advice to Farmers | "You trimmed the wilderness to size" | farming nature |
| My Father's Care | "The binder glittered in the sun," | farming aging |
| Owner | "The morning sun surveys the time for me," | farming ownership |
| The Waster | "The stalks still stand erect and the tassels wave," | animals farming |
| Truth | "How the devil do I know" | knowledge farming |
| Limited View | "The clutter and ruck of the stubble publish the time" | farming work |
| Tired of Earth | "Wind bites dust from the furrows" | farming death |
| The Wasted Corner | "She was a higglety, pigglety hen" | farming animals |
| Utopia | "When early dark and chilly rains" | farming animals |
| Claim of Two Countries | "My native land finds its map" | nature farming |
| Ownership | "Old neighbors of my people" | farming mortality |
| Close the Accounts | "The putting away time shows up" | farming fall |
| Common Ground | "Two neighbors lived across a road" | neighbors farming |
| Hen Pheasant | "Dusk fills the grove and seeps" | farming birds |
| In Doubt | "Perhaps the fields are doubtful too in spring" | farming winter |
| Plea for Single Focus | "You saw double today when you said you saw the wind" | nature farming |
| The Farmer's Season | "Yeah, spring, I know spring, the vernal season," | spring farming |
| Conservative | "The wilderness sleeps in seed and furrow" | farming wilderness |
| Potencies | "Earth, sun-plowed, rain-swept, trembles " | farming diligence |
| Forewarned | "Now when the breath of frost has chilled" | farming winter |
| Progress | "Own all the land you can get" | farming animals |
| Propped Apple Tree | "Its branches bowed with fruit, the tree" | nature farming |
| Three Sides to a Farm | "So now he wants to buy my farm, he's got" | farming generations |
| Time's Flail | "A scraggly corner, maimed by brush and weeds" | farming tools |
| Trials of Ownership | "The title to the land's a piece of paper" | farming owning |
| Cry Shame | "Stones outlast weather," | war farming |