Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WIND ON THE CORN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER


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First Line: Full often as I rove by path or stile
Last Line: Faintly in that full wind that rocks the outstanding firs.
Subject(s): Wind


Full often as I rove by path or stile,
To watch the harvest ripening in the vale,
Slowly and sweetly, like a growing smile --
A smile that ends in laughter -- the quick gale
Upon the breadths of gold-green wheat descends;
While still the swallow, with unbaffled grace,
About his viewless quarry dips and bends --
And all the fine excitement of the chase
Lies in the hunter's beauty: in the eclipse
Of that brief shadow, how the barley's beard
Tilts at the passing gloom, and wild-rose dips
Among the white-tops in the ditches reared:
And hedgerows; flowery breast of lacework stirs
Faintly in that full wind that rocks the outstanding firs.






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