Death & Dying
As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing
From Leaves of Grass
Death & Dying
As I watch’d the ploughman ploughing,
Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting,
I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies;
(Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)
Cite this poem
MLA
Whitman, Walt. “As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/248/.
Chicago
Whitman, Walt. “As I Watch the Ploughman Ploughing.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/whitman/248/.
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