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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CORN Matches Found: 65 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ACCIDENT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography 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 |
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