Contents · 31 sections
- Prairie Spring1 min
- PART I. The Wild Land — I15 min
- PART I. The Wild Land — II11 min
- PART I. The Wild Land — III15 min
- PART I. The Wild Land — IV16 min
- PART I. The Wild Land — V7 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — I9 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — II11 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — III16 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — IV10 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — V4 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — VI11 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — VII4 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — VIII9 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — IX5 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — X8 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — XI6 min
- PART II. Neighboring Fields — XII3 min
- PART III. Winter Memories — I15 min
- PART III. Winter Memories — II5 min
- PART IV. The White Mulberry Tree — I15 min
- PART IV. The White Mulberry Tree — II6 min
- PART IV. The White Mulberry Tree — III6 min
- PART IV. The White Mulberry Tree — IV5 min
- PART IV. The White Mulberry Tree — V5 min
- PART IV. The White Mulberry Tree — VI8 min
- PART IV. The White Mulberry Tree — VII8 min
- PART IV. The White Mulberry Tree — VIII3 min
- PART V. Alexandra — I11 min
- PART V. Alexandra — II11 min
- PART V. Alexandra — III9 min
O Pioneers · Willa Cather
Prairie Spring
Read online · About 1 minutePRAIRIE SPRING
Evening and the flat land, Rich and sombre and always silent; The miles of fresh-plowed soil, Heavy and black, full of strength and harshness; The growing wheat, the growing weeds, The toiling horses, the tired men; The long empty roads, Sullen fires of sunset, fading, The eternal, unresponsive sky. Against all this, Youth, Flaming like the wild roses, Singing like the larks over the plowed fields, Flashing like a star out of the twilight; Youth with its insupportable sweetness, Its fierce necessity, Its sharp desire, Singing and singing, Out of the lips of silence, Out of the earthy dusk.