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Subject: WHEAT
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A SEA OF WHEAT, by ALICE BAKER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I look at waves on a golden sea
Last Line: So rich as a field of wheat.
Subject(s): Food & Eating; Hunger; Wheat


A THRESHER OF WHEAT TO THE WYNDES, by JOACHIM DU BELLAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To you light troupe that ryde
Last Line: And noon is without shadowe.
Alternate Author Name(s): Du Bellay, Joachim
Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Wheat; Work; Workers


AMEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is over. What is over
Last Line: And my garden teem with spices.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Harvest; Wheat; Death


COMMUNION, by CLARA FOX    Poem Text                    
First Line: A man saw a soft brown, newly-cut, wheat field
Last Line: He felt the strength of god rise up in him.
Subject(s): Faith; Fields; God; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Wheat; Belief; Creed; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers


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


DAKOTA WHEAT-FIELD, by HAMLIN GARLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like liquid gold the wheat field lies
Last Line: A star that burns forever in that sky
Variant Title(s): Color In The Whea
Subject(s): Wheat


GRASS STUDIES, by ANNE CORAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: If we can't be aether
Last Line: The bend of the awn in wind
Subject(s): Fields; Grass; Nature; Wheat


IN A WHEAT FIELD, by CHARLES DAVIS PLATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: A corn of wheat abides alone
Last Line: We reap the fields where heroes lie.
Subject(s): Fields; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


IN THE WHEAT, by PAUL FORT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear an unseen child breathing in the wheat
Last Line: And I and the wheat no more than a soft, sweet breathing!
Subject(s): Wheat


KANSAS (2), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me the land where miles of wheat
Last Line: Let me live and let me die.
Variant Title(s): Kansas
Subject(s): Creative Ability; Kansas; Nature; Wheat; Inspiration; Creativity


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


NAMING COLORS', by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH    Poem Source                    
First Line: A perfect cream its middle reaches up
Last Line: And become the pink and the lighter blue
Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Vegetables; Wheat


POPPIES IN OUR WHEAT, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let no blame upon us fall
Last Line: Poppies grew amidst our wheat.
Subject(s): Poppies; Wheat


SHEAVES, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where long the shadows of the wind had rolled
Last Line: As if a thousand girls with golden hair %might rise from where they slept and go away
Subject(s): Wheat


SOISSONS: 1918, by GERALD V. STAMM    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now dreadful night unrolls, and dawn in gray
Last Line: May come from poppies in the wheat.
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Harvest; Soldiers; War; Wheat; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


SONG OF THE WHEAT, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have sung the song of the droving days
Last Line: That say: 'thank god for wheat!'
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Fields; Singing & Singers; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


SQUARE, by JIM JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bales, boxcars, red barns, white farmhouses, grain elevators, summer fal
Last Line: A good meal, a short woman
Subject(s): Drought; Fields; Wheat


STRUGGLING WHEAT, by JEANNE PERDRIEL-VAISSIERE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Struggling wheat, weighed down with rain
Last Line: Your gallant life is worthy of
Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Wheat


THE SHEAVES, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where long the shadows of the wind had rolled
Subject(s): Wheat


THE SPIRIT OF THE WHEAT, by EDWARD ABRAM UFFINGTON VALENTINE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Such times as windy moods do stir
Last Line: She fades into the wrinkling heat.
Subject(s): Wheat


TO A RED-WHEAT FIELD, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O rich red wheat! Thou wilt not long defer
Last Line: Fulfil your beauty! Justify my rhyme!
Subject(s): Wheat


TO THE WHEATFIELD, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Give us this day our daily bread
Last Line: "for 'tis the master's gift you bear."
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wheat


VERSE FOR SOWING WHEAT; NORFOLK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When the weirling shrieks at night
Last Line: Harvest flies from the mooncall's throat
Subject(s): Wheat


WAY OF GRAIN, by VLADISLAV FELITZIANOVICH KHODASEVICH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Along the even furrows walks the sower
Last Line: All living things must go the way of grain
Subject(s): Soul; Wheat


WHAT IT TAKES, by DOROTHY F. RAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Here lies the harvest at your feet
Last Line: Ripe proof of friendly service through the year.
Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


WHEAT, by BERTHA TODD CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tall ripening grain is such a thrilling sight
Last Line: The finished product means his country's bread.
Subject(s): Wheat


WHEAT, by FRANCIS ALEXANDER DEWSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I went through the rustling wheat
Last Line: You march and conquer with your quiet feet.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dewson, F. A.
Subject(s): Wheat


WHEAT, by DIANE GLANCY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The combines crossed the wheat field
Subject(s): Religion; Wheat


WHEAT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Christlike falls the golden grain
Last Line: One with us in flesh and blood.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Wheat


WHEAT FIELD, by B. J. BUHROW    Poem Source                    
First Line: Standing in a field of wheat
Last Line: And in the whole scene, my daughter's %dark hair was the only dark thing
Subject(s): Fields; Mothers And Daughters; Wheat


WHEAT FIELDS, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is an honest dignity in wheat
Last Line: And for a fertile yield breathe thanks to god.
Subject(s): Bread; Fields; Food & Eating; Wheat; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


WHEAT RIPENING, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What time the wheat field tinges rusty brown
Last Line: And hoarse-tongued bird-boy whose unceasing calls %join the lark's dittys to the rising sun
Subject(s): Wheat


WINTER WHEAT, by EVA WILLES WANGSGAARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here lie these seeded furrows under snow
Last Line: Find loam will break as surely from the dark?
Subject(s): Wheat; Winter