364. Songs in a Hospital by Sara Teasdale. The Broken Field. Monroe, Harriet, ed. 1917. The New Poetry: An Anthology

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

364. Songs in a Hospital

The Broken Field

By Sara Teasdale


MY soul is a dark ploughed field
In the cold rain;
My soul is a broken field
Ploughed by pain.

Where windy grass and flowers	5
Were growing,
The field lies broken now
For another sowing.

Great Sower, when you tread
My field again,	10
Scatter the furrows there
With better grain.