Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, POPPY FIELDS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY


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POPPY FIELDS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You say this poppy blooms so red
Last Line: To rise, a poppy field of france?
Subject(s): Fields; Poppies; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


You say this poppy blooms so red
Because its roots were daily fed
On last year's cold and festering dead?

Such is the blessed way of earth;
Oblivious, intent on mirth,
To turn rank death to gorgeous birth!

Even this brutal agony,
So hideous, so foul, will be
Romance to others, presently.

And would it not be proud romance
Falling in some obscure advance
To rise, a poppy field of France?





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