What's in a poem/ 2

The Solitary Reaper, William Wordsworth, 1807.

Henry Bacon, The Peasant Girl, 1883

"Behold her single in the field... Reaping and singing by herself..."

 

"Among the farthest Hebrides"

Flow Gently, Sweet Afton

"Will no one tell me what she sings? - 

Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow 

For old, unhappy, far-off things, 

And battles long ago: 

Or is it some humble lay, 

Familiar matter of to-day? 

Some natural sorrow, loss, or pain, 

That has been, and may be again?"