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Ploughing on Sunday
From Harmonium (1923)
Arts & Sciences
The white cock’s tail
Tosses in the wind.
The turkey-cock’s tail
Glitters in the sun.
Water in the fields.
The wind pours down.
The feathers flare
And bluster in the wind.
Remus, blow your horn!
I’m ploughing on Sunday,
Ploughing North America.
Blow your horn!
Tum-ti-tum,
Ti-tum-tum-tum!
The turkey-cock’s tail
Spreads to the sun.
The white cock’s tail
Streams to the moon.
Water in the fields.
The wind pours down.
Cite this poem
MLA
Stevens, Wallace. “Ploughing on Sunday.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/14/.
Chicago
Stevens, Wallace. “Ploughing on Sunday.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/stevens/14/.
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