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First Line: He stood in a green stand of corn
Last Line: Of the dying animals strewn out behind them.
Subject(s): Accidents; Cattle; Corn; Fathers & Daughters; Railroads; Railways; Trains


ALIEN CORN, by PAMELA HARRISON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silent, except the hot slap of tires
Last Line: Rusty gears startled by a rising wind
Subject(s): Aliens; Corn


ALIEN CORN, by DENNIS SCHMITZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Kneeling to see the world
Last Line: Weevils from a cornskin rug. Help! Help!
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Iowa; Native Americans


ALPHABETICAL SONG ON THE CORN LAW BILL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good people draw near as you pass along
Last Line: They must be muzzled in the dog days for fear they might go mad
Subject(s): Alphabet Verse;corn Laws (great Britain)


ARCHAIC CORN, by MOLLY MCQUADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A beam of dawn loomed into a ridge of supple beads
Last Line: The corn's strange harvests
Subject(s): Corn


AT HUSKING TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At husking time the tassel fades
Last Line: At husking time.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers


AUTUMN'S DONE; THEY HAVE THE GOLDEN CORN IN, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: I go elsewhere
Subject(s): Corn; Harvest; Italy


BEAUTIFUL CORN, by PEARL BARRETT HOY    Poem Text                    
First Line: You talk of beautiful corn
Last Line: How can you know?
Subject(s): Corn; Harvest; Plantation Life


BLASTING ROCKS IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When cutting corn is late
Last Line: And squandered forty plunks.
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers


BLUE CORN, BLACK MESA, by PEGGY SHUMAKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Before you go, I need to tell you
Last Line: No one knows why this story is true
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Hopi Indians; Human Rights; Native Americans


CHARMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Prune your corn in the gray of the
Last Line: Ilka freckle's gang awa!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Charms (magic); Corn; Feet; Rain


COLUMBIA'S EMBLEM, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Blazon columbia's emblem
Last Line: Is the bounteous, golden corn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Corn


CORN, by DON AVERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I'm a doll. The huge full moon
Last Line: While seeds carry their map of life %in a crux of small far ms littering nowhere
Subject(s): Corn


CORN, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Today the woods are trembling through and through
Last Line: Sunnyside, georgia, august, 1874.
Subject(s): Corn


CORN, by RUTH LECHLITNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here at our side
Last Line: Let us walk softly . . . Softly.
Subject(s): Corn; Fields; Graves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones


CORN, by JR. THEODORE WOROZBYT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Friend, what does it mean when my wife buys corn
Last Line: Tremble and sweeten the dark field stretched above me
Subject(s): Corn; Marriage


CORN SONG, by BENJAMIN WALLACE DOUGLASS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Across the april valleys run
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life


CORN-LAW HYMN, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, call thy pallid angel
Last Line: A sea, a sea of men!
Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer
Subject(s): Corn Laws (great Britain); Labor & Laborers; Work; Workers


CORN-PLANTING, by PETER MCARTHUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The earth is awake and the birds have come
Subject(s): Corn


CORNFIELD, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I went across the pasture lot
Last Line: Knows all about the corn and how %it comes together like a fan
Subject(s): Corn


CORNFIELDS, by MARY HOWITT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When on the breath of autumn breeze
Last Line: Seem of old time, and take me there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Botham, Mary
Subject(s): Corn


CUCKOO CORN, by PAUL MULDOON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That seed that goes into the ground
Subject(s): Corn


CUTTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The farmer 'moves right up the line'
Last Line: "and ""set,"" with father, ""'round the hill."
Subject(s): Cattle; Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers


DAKOTA SHOWERS, by A. W. RANSOM    Poem Text                    
First Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining wheat and corn
Last Line: It isn't raining rain to me, it's raining corn and wheat.
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Rain; South Dakota; Wheat; Agriculture; Farmers


ELLIOTT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hands off! Thou tithe-fat plunderer! Play
Last Line: A freehold in his grave!
Subject(s): Corn Laws (great Britain); Elliott, Ebenezer (1781-1849)


FIELD OF MAIZE, by HALCYONE G. MORGAREIDGE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here fifty thousand crests of gold are borne
Last Line: And there can be no bread save bread of sorrow.
Subject(s): Corn


IOWA, by J. D. SMITH    Poem Source                    
First Line: They prefer their old style
Last Line: The fields give their ears, %and the stalks turn brown
Subject(s): Corn; Iowa


KOROSTA KATZINA SONG, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Yellow butterflies / over the blossoming virgin corn
Last Line: All day shall come the rushing rain
Subject(s): Butterflies;corn;fields;harvest;insects; Pastures;meadows;leas;bugs


LAUGHING CORN, by CARL SANDBURG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a high majestic fooling
Last Line: The farmer and his wife talk things over together.
Subject(s): Corn


MAIZE IN NORWAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By an inn of wildest norway
Last Line: As that cluster of waving corn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Americans; Corn; Farm Life; Norway; Agriculture; Farmers


MONTHS WERE NAMED FOR, by BESMILR BRIGHAM    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time to plant corn
Last Line: And big birds in the ripe corn %sang
Subject(s): Corn; Fields; Harvest; Plantation Life; Soil; Wheat


NEW CORN, by T'AO CH'IEN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swiftly the years, beyond recall
Last Line: That brushes the fields of new corn.
Alternate Author Name(s): T'ao Yuan-ming; Tao Yuanming; Tao Qian
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Corn


PLANTING CORN IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I learnt soon after I was born
Last Line: "no crows are working johnson's corn."
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers


POPPING CORN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "and there they sat, a popping corn"
Last Line: I'm sick of all this popping corn - / why don't you pop the question?
Subject(s): Corn;courtship


POPPING CORN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Oh, the sparkling eyes
Subject(s): Corn


RIDDLE: 8, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I left my house white
Last Line: I was white again
Subject(s): Corn;riddles


SEED, by RUTH STONE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Corn is universal, / so like a roman senator
Last Line: Oh my daughters.
Subject(s): Children; Corn; Indian Summer; Parents; Childhood; Parenthood


SONG OF THE CORN, by JAMES EDWIN CAMPBELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O, hits time fur de plantin' ur de co'n
Last Line: O, hits time fur de eatin' ur de co'n.
Subject(s): African Americans; Corn; Gullahs; Negroes; American Blacks


SONG OF THE FLOOD, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The first man - you are his child, he is your child
Last Line: Bekayhozhon - you are his child, he is your child
Subject(s): Corn; Nature


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We bore him through the golden land
Last Line: Are dreaming of the spring.
Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; Day; Death; Farm Life; Grief; Harvest; Hope; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism


SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O night, send up the harvest moon
Last Line: Till I am old no more.
Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; God; Grief; Night; Old Age; Seasons; Youth; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


SPRING AND AUTUMN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Green ripples singing down the corn
Last Line: And full of winter pain.
Subject(s): Corn; Gold; Green (color); Pain; Winter; Suffering; Misery


STORY OF THE CORN, by K. FISHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The grains of corn were planted
Subject(s): Corn; Harvest


THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE CORNFIELD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Error, disease, snow, sudden weather.
Subject(s): Corn; Disease; Death; Dead, The


THE CORN BABY, by MARK WUNDERLICH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They brought it. It was brought
Subject(s): Corn


THE CORN HUSKER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard by the indian lodges, where the bush
Last Line: Like the dead husks that rustle through her hands.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Corn; Injustice; Labor & Laborers; Metaphor; Native Americans; Weariness; Work; Workers; Similes; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Fatigue


THE CORN IS IN TASSEL, by CAROLINE HAZARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The corn is in tassel, and each tufted plume
Last Line: The corn is in tassel, the year at its prime.
Subject(s): August; Birds; Corn; Sun


THE CORN-HUSKING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a week before thanksgiving
Last Line: While the merry time away.
Subject(s): Corn; Harvest; Holidays; November; Thanksgiving


THE HUSKERS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was late in mild october, and the long autumnal rain
Last Line: Send up our thanks to god!
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers


THE HUSKING CHAMP, by RAY MURRAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Fast, grasping hands both lithe and strong
Last Line: A king of toil, a husking champ.
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers


THE LONG TRAIL: THE CORN LANDS, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: And the corn-lands call! The long, long trail
Last Line: From the soft blue haze of the timber line.
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Prairies; Roads; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains; Paths; Trails


THE MAIZE, by WILLIAM WHITEMAN FOSDICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A song for the plant of my own native west
Last Line: Who sent us from heaven the maize!
Subject(s): Corn; Plants; Planting; Planters


THE PATH THROUGH THE CORN, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wavy and bright in the summer air
Last Line: He who watered the furrows can ripen the corn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria
Subject(s): Corn


THE PLOUGHMAN, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the long fell's stony eaves
Last Line: The corn will spring again for me.
Subject(s): Corn; Plowing & Plowmen


THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: BLESSING THE CORNFIELDS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sing, o song of hiawatha
Last Line: From their seats beneath the pine-trees!
Subject(s): Corn


THE SQUIRREL'S WIGWAM, by CLARA DOTY BATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: They laid it low
Subject(s): Squirrels; Corn


THE VEGETABLES, by JAMES MCMICHAEL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She bore only the heart
Subject(s): Artichokes; Asparagus; Cauliflowers; Herbs; Corn; Celery; Bell Peppers; Potatoes


THE WAVING OF THE CORN, by SIDNEY LANIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ploughman, whose gnarly hand yet kindly wheeled
Last Line: West chester, pa., 1876.
Subject(s): Corn


THE WIND IN THE CORN, by EDWARD FORRESTER SUTTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Summer silence dreaming downward with the cawing of the crow
Last Line: Cries the wind in the corn!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, E.
Subject(s): Corn; Wind


THE YOUNG CORN IN CHORUS, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All we, the young corn, stalwart stand
Last Line: Cloy those he would please.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Corn


THERE IS THAT PERSON, by BRIAN SWANN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Out of her middle
Subject(s): Corn; Native Americans; Riddles


VERMONT CORN MEAL, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What fun it used to be to feel
Last Line: To husky boys and yellow meal.
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers


WIND THROUGH THE CORN, by NELL E. MABEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A thousand horsemen spurred the tasseled corn
Last Line: Of love is mine -- and laughter all my years.
Subject(s): Corn


WOMEN PLANTING CORN, by JUDY RAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Against brown hills in buttock curve
Last Line: The basket-loads, the pegs, the shaking out
Subject(s): Corn; Women


ZEA, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once their fruit is picked,
Subject(s): Corn; Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers