A Farm Walk by Christina Georgina Rossetti
Seven years after meeting a singing milkmaid near the spring equinox, a speaker in London considers taking a train back to the countryside. The thought that she may have changed or married interrupts the plan, and the speaker bids the remembered maid farewell.
By Christina Georgina Rossetti · Genre: Pastoral Poetry, Lyric Poetry · 637 words
First lines
The year stood at its equinox / And bluff the North was blowing, / A bleat of lambs came from the flocks, / Green hardy things were growing; / I met a maid with shining locks / Where milky kine were lowing.
She wore a kerchief on her neck, / Her bare arm showed its dimple, / Her apron spread without a speck, / Her air was frank and simple.
Genres
- Pastoral Poetry — Rhymed stanzas describe a milkmaid singing beside her cow and contrast the remembered farm scene with the speaker's work in London.
- Lyric Poetry — The first-person speaker moves from an affectionate recollection to sorrow over seven passing springs and uncertainty about seeing the maid again.
Tags
milkmaids · rural life · spring · memory · London · country songs
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Pastoral Poetry, Lyric Poetry
- Length: 637 words
- Structure: 1 section, 14 paragraphs
- Reading fit: Fairly Difficult (10th-12th Grade)
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