"Like Barley Bending"

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"Like Barley Bending"
by Sara Teasdale


Like barley bending
     In low fields by the sea,
Singing in hard wind
     Ceaselessly;

Like barley bending
     And rising again,
So would I, unbroken,
     Rise from pain;

So would I softly,
     Day long, night long,
Change my sorrow
     Into song.


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