Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE POPPY FIELDS OF SERGEY, by KATE SLAUGHTER MCKINNEY


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THE POPPY FIELDS OF SERGEY, by                    
First Line: Oh! The poppy fields of sergey
Last Line: Where the blood-red poppies grow.
Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fields; Poppies; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


Oh! the poppy fields of Sergey
Are the reddest red that grows;
They have dipped their cups of crimson
In the bravest blood that flows.

Hearts unstaunched gave blood, and gladly,
Hearts on hearts, gave blow on blow
For a cause—why tell the reason—
All the bleeding poppies know!

Here the moon in lamentation,
With the years will come and go,
Making gold the graves in Sergey
Where the blood-red poppies grow.





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