# The wheel of earth

Author: Sandburg, Helga, 1918-2014

Genre: Young women -- Fiction

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78102

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+wheel+of+earth+Sandburg&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

We lay beneath the alder tree Her breast she leaned upon my hand The alder leaf moved over me The sun moved over on the land Her mouth she pressed upon my mouth I felt the leaf beat in her breast I felt the sun move in her hair But nearer than the leaf the sun I felt the love go deep in me That has no season in the earth That has no time of spring or birth That cannot flower like a tree Or like one die but only be

## Chapters

- [part one](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-wheel-of-earth-78102/chapters/1/index.md)
- [part three](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-wheel-of-earth-78102/chapters/3/index.md)
- [part two](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-wheel-of-earth-78102/chapters/2/index.md)
- [part four](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-wheel-of-earth-78102/chapters/4/index.md)
- [part five](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-wheel-of-earth-78102/chapters/5/index.md)