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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DREAM OF AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mellow hazes, lowly trailing
Last Line: Down the silence solemnly.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Grief; Harvest; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness


A FULL HARVEST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seems like a feller'd ort'o jes' to-day
Last Line: On'y jes' waste it all on me and you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers


A HARVEST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O gate of death, of the blessed night
Last Line: Then for evermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Harvest


A MEADOW TRAGEDY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's a meadow full of sunshine
Last Line: And a song up in the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement
Subject(s): Birds; Fields; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


A SONG OF APPLE-GATHERING, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Harvest is over in mist and moist moon-light
Last Line: Joy-worn and grave to its sleep-time at last.
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest


A WET EVENING, by JANE BARLOW    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silvern circle of this summer lake
Last Line: With morn may kindle again.
Subject(s): Harvest; Mist; Rain; Water; Weather


AFTER HARVEST, by HENRY ALFORD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, ye thankful people, come
Last Line: Raise the glorious harvest-home!
Variant Title(s): Harvest Home;thanksgiving Day
Subject(s): Harvest; Holidays; Thanksgiving Day


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


AN ANSWER; FRAGMENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To make it glad with a goodly crop
Last Line: Repaying the blood that fed the soil.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Trees


AN AUTUMN WEDDING-SONG, by ALGERNON TASSIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Southward the swallow flies, south to the sunlands
Last Line: And it's sing for the gold of her wedding-morn!
Subject(s): Harvest; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


AN EVENING IN HARVEST TIME, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On goes the age with footsteps fleet and strong
Last Line: And not a footfall chafes it into sound.
Subject(s): Harvest


ANTIQUE HARVESTERS, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tawny are the leaves turned but they still hold
Subject(s): Harvest


ANTIQUE HARVESTERS, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tawny are the leaves turned but they still hold
Last Line: Why, the ribs of the earth subsist frail as a breath %if but god wearieth
Subject(s): Harvest


APEHERD: SECTION 2, by JIANG SHIWEI    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's a good harvest this year
Last Line: To scratch a coin from the dirt
Subject(s): Harvest


APPLE BLOSSOMS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day in the green, sunny orchard
Last Line: The while that he dreamily spoke.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Farm Life; Forests; Fruit; Harvest; Spring; Trees; Agriculture; Farmers; Woods


APPLE BOXES, by JANE BROX    Poem Source                    
First Line: Some of our apple boxes come from a hundred miles away: 'moose hill
Last Line: Their crowns still shaped by old prunings
Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest


APPLE-PARING NIGHT IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The biggest basket 'round our place
Last Line: That weekly apple-paring night.
Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Food & Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers


APPLES, by LENNART SJOGREN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The apples fall in the night. The trees are still
Last Line: On such matters neither the night nor the apples see much difference
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Gardens And Gardening; Harvest; Trees


AT HARVEST, by JOSEPH CAMPBELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth travails
Alternate Author Name(s): Ultach; Maccathmhaoil, Seosamh
Subject(s): Harvest


AT HARVEST TIME, by OLIVA WARD BUSH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sower walked among his fields
Last Line: "for these are ripe at harvest time."
Alternate Author Name(s): Bush-banks, Oliva Ward
Subject(s): Harvest


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


AUGUST WEATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead heat and windless air
Last Line: And the ripe apples fall.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Apples; August; Fruit; Harvest; Summer


AUTUMN, by JESSIE ALBERT BARNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A dash of color, an azure sky
Last Line: May it be to joy, and never to weep.
Subject(s): Autumn; Colors; Harvest; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As a harvester, at dusk
Last Line: These delights for festival.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Festivals; Harvest; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Fairs; Pageants


AUTUMN DAYS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the cup of our life to-day
Last Line: Thank him from strand to strand.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Autumn; God; Gratitude; Harvest; Seasons; Fall


AUTUMN PLOUGHING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: More than the beauty of summer
Last Line: Though his ploughshare lay me low.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fruit; Growth; 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


BEAN FIELDS, by MARGARET HASSE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They labor along the straight lines of their
Last Line: Opening here, closing there
Subject(s): Beans; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor And Laborers


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


BOOK OF THE RISING FIELD, by ANDREW GRACE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Chapter 1: the planting
Last Line: The arrowheads are cast aside'
Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Plantation Life


BRANDENBURGH HARVEST SONG, by FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The corn in golden light
Last Line: She is no more!
Alternate Author Name(s): La Motte Fouque
Subject(s): Death; Harvest; Dead, The


BROTHERLY LOVE; OR, THE SITE OF KING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a sweet traditionary tale
Last Line: Each with the golden sheaves within his arms.
Subject(s): Brothers; Churches; Family Life; Harvest; Love - Nature Of; Half-brothers; Cathedrals; Relatives


BRUEGHEL'S HARVESTERS, by RICHARD FOERSTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Though they stoop and sweat
Last Line: Stares out at us, and eats
Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest


BUNCH GRASS, SELS., by ROBERT SUND    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ranchers are selling their wheat early this year, not holding over for
Last Line: Are they doing?
Subject(s): Harvest; Ranch Life


CHILD'S THOUGHT OF HARVEST, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out in the fields which were green last may
Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan
Subject(s): Harvest; Holidays


CLASSIC OF POETRY: 245, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: She who first bore the folk
Last Line: It has lasted until now
Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Harvest


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


CONCERNING HOES, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: You have heard of that over-worked man with the hoe
Last Line: Nor ripens life's harvest with penitent tears.
Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers


COUNSEL, by JOSEPH FRANCIS CARLIN MACDONNELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No harvest shall they store
Last Line: God love you, boy, god love you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Carlin, Francis
Subject(s): Advice; Harvest


CRADLING WHEAT, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The horn, the horn, the harvest horn
Last Line: All drink from yellow gourds.
Subject(s): Harvest


EASTER, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So death %being the harvest of god
Last Line: Dupe, opening, shall find bats far gone with my sap
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Catholics; Easter; Harvest; Holidays; Poverty


FAT OF THE LAND, by GEORGIANA VALOYCE SANCHEZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Walking to public school
Last Line: Beneath the bare peach tree
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Native Americans; Soil


FIELDS, by RUTH CLAY PRICE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am sister of the virgin field
Last Line: Rearing the tawny grain.
Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


FIELDS BEYOND ROSEWELL, by DEENA LINETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: Heat rises from the wide resplendent fields
Last Line: Unstinting fields. We pick them anyhow
Subject(s): Cattle; Europe; Fields; Harvest; Saint Kilda (scotland)


FOLLY'S HARVEST, by BERNARD RAYMUND    Poem Text                    
First Line: Superb impertinence of youth
Last Line: Its unacknowledged way.
Subject(s): Harvest; Youth


FROM HARVEST TO JANUARY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The hay has long been built into the stack
Last Line: Shall nurse the soil for next year's scythes and rakes.
Subject(s): Harvest


FULFILLMENT, by ALBERT VANN FOWLER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tranquility is in these autumn days
Last Line: In growing corn and fields of rippled gold.
Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Seasons; Fall


GOD'S WEATHER: MARCH, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A wild whir of wings thro' the woodland's browns hieing
Last Line: Blow on thro' the woods and the weather, god's weather.
Subject(s): Harvest; Months; Spring; Weather


GOING HOME (DOHERTY'S SHACK), by PATRICK MACGILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I'm going back to glenties when the harvest fields / are brown
Last Line: And the harvest home is cheery in my dear old donegal.
Subject(s): Harvest; Home


GOLD HUNTING, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The miser hurries through the town
Last Line: Gather some before you're old!
Subject(s): April; Dandelions; Flowers; Gold; Harvest; Weeds


GOLDEN HOUR, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Of all the year this is the most golden
Last Line: Let me not die before the golden hour!
Subject(s): Colors; Harvest; Seasons


GOOD HARVEST, by YEN CHEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Last winter, %the agricultural co-op was formed.
Last Line: Is a harvest of bliss and love
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage


GRAIN IS RIPE, by KONG PING-ZHONG    Poem Source                    
First Line: The millet smells sweet in the west wind
Last Line: It rests in the setting sun
Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Harvest


GREEN CHERRIES, SELECTION, by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I swung / the gate and entered
Last Line: To other things.
Subject(s): Cherries; Fruit; Harvest


HAIL STORM, by JOHN COLMAN EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: We stood knee-deep among the corn
Last Line: And found him hanging in the barn.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Storms; Suicide; Agriculture; Farmers


HARVEST, by GERTRUDE RYDER BENNETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: He spoke of harvest, pointed to the field
Last Line: She smiled and brushed a happy tear away.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers


HARVEST, by DANA BURNET    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a schooner came ashore this fall
Last Line: That one might bring his soul to paradise.
Subject(s): Death; Harvest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean


HARVEST, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In time, even leaves on
Last Line: To gather in my gone years?
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest


HARVEST, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The silver rain, the shining sun
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O I saw her at the time of the sowing of the grain
Last Line: At the time of the mowing of the grain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST, by TREENA KORTJE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman is an orchard
Last Line: And the wheelbarrow iwll be rolled in %very slowly
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST, by ELINOR LENNEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now comes the season of falling leaf
Last Line: Plow the spring's field!
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She heard the summons -- and she needs must go
Last Line: Untouched by winter, still remembering spring!
Subject(s): Death; Harvest; Dead, The


HARVEST, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is work in the mead as of old
Subject(s): Harvest; Labor And Laborers


HARVEST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring hath the morning gladness
Last Line: With the peace of god is blest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Children; Harvest; Mothers; Spring; Childhood


HARVEST, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The powers of heaven plant the weed
Last Line: Through man to feed his fellow-man.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST AND LIBERTY; BEFORE ELECTION, 1860, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The harvest moon is waning
Last Line: Until the work be done!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): American Civil War; Farm Life; Freedom; Harvest; U.s. - History; Agriculture; Farmers; Liberty


HARVEST ELVES, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The harvesters - they say themselves
Last Line: Just as the harvesters have said
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST GATHERING, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The last days of the summer: bright and clear
Last Line: Shall light a land whose children will be free!
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST HOME (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Late in september came our corn-crops home
Last Line: As if to gratulate the harvest won.
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST HOME' VERSE SUNG IN PARTS OF SURREY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: We have plough'd
Last Line: Overthrow'd - harvest home!
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST HYMN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now autumn strews on every plain
Last Line: The grateful song, the hymn of praise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST IN UMATILLA, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Heigh-ho! For the oregon highlands
Last Line: Umatilla is reaping her wheat!
Subject(s): Harvest; Oregon


HARVEST MOON, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hush! Was my whisper
Last Line: That harvesting.
Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Moon; Seasons; Fall


HARVEST MOON: 1914, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over the twilight field
Last Line: The harvest-moon.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.
Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War


HARVEST MOON: 1916, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Moon, slow rising, over the trembling sea-rim
Last Line: Light, everlasting.)
Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs.
Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Women; World War I; First World War


HARVEST ODE, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When erst, by eden's guarded gate
Last Line: Our father's manly toil.
Subject(s): Harvest; Nature - Religious Aspects; Odes (as Poetic Form)


HARVEST SONG, by ELIZA COOK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I love, I love to see
Last Line: And crowns the harvest land!
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST SONG, by RICHARD DEHMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: A field of golden wheat there grows
Last Line: Grind, o mill, keep grinding!
Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Rain; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


HARVEST SONG, by LUDWIG HENRICH CHRISTOPH HOLTY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sickles sound / on the ground
Last Line: Home they go, yo ho!
Subject(s): Harvest; Nature


HARVEST SONG, by GEORGE LUNT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Once more amidst the harvest fields
Last Line: Eternal be the praise.
Subject(s): Harvest; Nature; Seasons


HARVEST SONG, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled
Subject(s): African Americans; Harvest; Hunger; Negroes; American Blacks


HARVEST SONG, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a reaper whose muscles set at sundown. All my oats are cradled
Last Line: It will not bring me knowledge of my hunger
Subject(s): African Americans; Harvest; Hunger


HARVEST SONG FROM NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Old woman, old woman, %thoo mun goa shearin'
Last Line: For I'm laame o' my leg
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST TIME, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain
Last Line: Then sleeps and dreams for a year again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Metaphor; Summer; Agriculture; Farmers; Similes


HARVEST TIME IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I like that scripture line that says
Last Line: They are not white for harvest now.
Subject(s): Harvest; Vermont


HARVEST-EVE, by LUISA IGLORIA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Silence is speech cupped round
Last Line: Against the emptiness of stone
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST-HOME, by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now, ere summer bids its long adieu
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST-HOME, by JOHN MCCLURE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The moon was curving like a sickle
Last Line: To tell her that his heart was broken.
Subject(s): Harvest; Home; Love - Loss Of


HARVEST-HOME (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All day we watched the unintermitted fume
Last Line: And the hinds supt, and slept a happy sleep.
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST-HOME SONG, by JOHN DAVIDSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The frost will bite us soon
Last Line: Drink deep; drink it up!
Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Harvest; Wine


HARVEST: 1, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now is the harvest gathered in at last
Last Line: Food for the world beneath the summer sun?
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVEST: 2, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Long had the seed been waiting in the earth
Last Line: And grown and multiplied a hundredfold.
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVESTER'S NOON, by ELEANOR LOVELL CRANE    Poem Text                    
First Line: The dusty monster, noisily digesting the heavy bundles
Last Line: And dust and water.
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVESTERS, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There will be nothing - not the light dust
Last Line: Weightless as dream, from field on darkened field.
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVESTING, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Pale sheaves of oats, pocked by untimely rain
Last Line: Uncarried on cold fields, is all my fear.
Subject(s): Harvest


HARVESTING WHEAT FOR THE PUBLIC SHARE, by LI CHU    Poem Source                    
First Line: It is a year of good harvest
Last Line: And cleaned it, %we will turn it in as the public share
Subject(s): Harvest


HYMN FOR SEEDTIME AND A SAFE HARVEST (ARVAL HYMN), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now life in the houses of flesh help us
Last Line: Yes -- yes -- yes -- yesyes
Subject(s): Harvest


HYMNS FOR CHILDREN: 5, by ANNIE MATHESON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our lord became a servant
Last Line: His 'peace be unto you.'
Subject(s): Harvest; Jesus Christ = Suffering & Sacrifice; Labor & Laborers; Love; Peace; Work; Workers


IDYL OF HARVEST TIME, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swift cloud, swift light, now dark, now bright, across the landscape played
Last Line: The quail is near - 'ha hoyt!' - I hear his almost human whistle!
Subject(s): Harvest


IF YOU'RE ALWAYS SILENT AND SAY NOTHING, by HAN SHAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And the harvest day will never come
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Harvest; Zen Buddhism


IN AUTUMN TONES, by MARGARET PERKINS BRIGGS    Poem Text                    
First Line: They have not seen beyond their garden wall
Last Line: Strange winds begrudge the gleaner's ancient share.
Subject(s): Dreams; Evening; Gardens & Gardening; Ghosts; Harvest; Supernatural; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight


IN SO DOING, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: The blue jay %takes flight %in the pine
Last Line: (repeat as necessary.)
Subject(s): Harvest; Life


IN THE VERY HEART, by MARJORIE AGOSIN    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Of the sun and %unmasked earth
Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Summer; Watermelons


JOURNAL, SELS., by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Many leaves of the cultivated cherry are turned yellow, and a very few
Last Line: May work.'
Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Rain; Seasons; Spring; Umbrellas


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


LAKE TSERKNITSA (SLOVENIA), by OSTEN SJOSTRAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: For months
Last Line: For the opposite to arrive
Subject(s): Drought; Harvest; Water


LAST YEAR'S HARVEST, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since harvest passed from out this lonely gate
Last Line: My sweetest thoughts, ere they wax cold and faint.
Subject(s): Harvest


LATE AUTUMN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: October, - and the skies are cool and grey
Last Line: His perfect harvesting; he sleeps at ease.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius
Subject(s): Autumn; Decay; Harvest; October; Seasons; Fall; Rot; Decadence


LATE HARVESTING, by ROBERT KING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Autumn, and the children leave
Last Line: Calling from the porch in the first language
Subject(s): Harvest


LINES WRITTEN IN THE DOG-DAYS; HOW HOT IT IS!, by WILLIAM WOTY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sun now darts his fervid rays
Last Line: How charming now, and cool it is!
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Oppression; Sun; Thirst; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers


LOAD, by JOHN HEWITT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Today we carted home the last brown sheaf
Last Line: On withered golden-rod and snapdragon %and tarnished marigold
Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Seasons


LOADING FEED IN THE GARAGE PARKING LOT, by LAWSON FUSAO INADA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Bright sunlight on the grange parking lot
Last Line: He would be right here at the grange again, this instant, no
Subject(s): Animals; Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Horses; Labor And Laborers


MABEL MARTIN; A HARVEST IDYL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I call the old time back: I bring my lay
Last Line: "and the wind whispered, ""it is well!"
Subject(s): Harvest


MAY BASKETS, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In other lands the children bring
Last Line: And tell our way the joy of spring.
Subject(s): Harvest; May (month); Spring


MELONS OF EGYPT, by PABLO MEDINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I was in a tunnel that led to cataplasms
Last Line: For the harvest of the melons of egypt
Subject(s): Egypt; Harvest; Poetry And Poets


MESSIDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Put in the sickles and reap
Last Line: Put in the sickles and reap.
Subject(s): Dawn; Harvest; War; Sunrise


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


MY GARDEN, by CLARA MCKEE BEEDE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I see the sun ashining
Last Line: It's enough to make you laugh!
Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Soil; Spring; Vegetables


MY HARVEST, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The autumn day is quiet in its fullness
Last Line: Has ripened into a harvest of good fortune
Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich
Subject(s): Harvest


MY LADY OF THE HARVEST, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: A symphony: / murmurs of you
Last Line: As I now adore you!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph
Subject(s): Harvest


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


NECROLOGY: 1929, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: One generation did not see them come
Last Line: Them all. He garnered in both wheat and tares.
Subject(s): Baby Boom Generation; Fathers; Harvest


NEW HARVEST, by CULLY DRAKE KIRKHAM    Poem Text                    
First Line: I heard an old man speaking to the wind
Last Line: "and his heart will run to meet a prairie wife!"
Subject(s): Harvest; Prairies; Plains


NOVEMBER, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The sun sets on a day of peace and labor
Last Line: I see a human fire burning
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Nature; November


NURSE LOGS, by POLLY BRODY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Stilled, they lie %long green combers
Last Line: In which they root, %those long, prone swells, inspirited
Subject(s): Forests; Harvest; Trees


ON FIELDS OER WHICH THE REAPER'S HAND HAS PASSED, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In subtler webs than finest summer haze
Subject(s): Harvest


ONCE I GOT A POSTCARD FROM THE FIJI ISLANDS, by JAAN KAPLINSKI    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Never forgot to put in my pocket
Subject(s): Harvest; Pictures; Poetry And Poets


OUR OLD VERMONT APPLE POLE, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As on along through life I go
Last Line: A picture of our apple pole.
Subject(s): Apple Trees; Fruit; Harvest; Trees; Vermont


OUT A-NUTTEN, by WILLIAM BARNES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Last week, when we'd a-haul'd the crops
Last Line: Vrom copse a-nuttèn.
Subject(s): Autumn; Farm Life; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Nuts & Nutting; Seasons; Fall; Agriculture; Farmers; Work; Workers


PAN'S HARVEST HYMN, by VIOLA BLACKBURN HULBERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Gather the sacred acorns, come!
Last Line: In the name of our father, pan.
Subject(s): Harvest; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Wellesley College


PART OF AUTUMN, by MARIE EMILIE GILCHRIST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Part of autumn it is, perhaps
Last Line: To find a beauty in being slow.
Subject(s): Autumn; Harvest; Pumpkins; Seasons; Fall


PEACHES, by JANE BROX    Poem Source                    
First Line: The handful of varieties that grow in this part of the country have
Last Line: Peaches, their fragrance blooms at the back of your throat as it passes
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Peaches


PEACHES, by CONNIE WANEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: I have eaten peach after peach
Last Line: Is suitable for resurrection
Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Harvest; Peaches


PICKING APPLES IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wake up there, boys, no time to dream
Last Line: "we plumb forgot to salt the sheep."
Subject(s): Apples; Farm Life; Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


PLUMERIA HARVEST, by ANNE MOTT-SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Bend the branches gently there
Last Line: Is gathered...Gathered...Gathered...!
Subject(s): Harvest


POTATO HARVEST, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A high bare field, brown from the plough, and borne
Last Line: Down the dusk hillside %lumbers the wain; and day fades out like smoke
Subject(s): Harvest; Potatoes


PRODUCTS OF MY FARM ARE THESE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And fetch the acres in
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1025; Poem: 103
Subject(s): Harvest


RAISING HUBBARD SQUASH IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If we could only spin a top
Last Line: Till I can raise a hubbard squash.
Subject(s): Fields; Fruit; Harvest; Plantation Life; Vegetables; Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


RAKING WALNUTS IN THE RAIN, by MONICA SHANNON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mexican jo and mexican jane
Last Line: Steaming rakes and picking sacks!
Subject(s): Harvest; Walnuts


REAPER, by MARGARET FRASER    Poem Text                    
First Line: I gathered the evening that lay
Last Line: Of my scythe?
Subject(s): Harvest


REAPERS, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones
Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Rats; Seasons; Lawn Mowers


REAPERS, by JEAN TOOMER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones
Last Line: His belly close to ground. I see the blade, %blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade
Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing And Mowers; Rats; Seasons


REAPING THE BARLEY, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE    Poem Source                    
First Line: On a bull's hollow horn
Subject(s): Harvest


RETURNING FROM HARVEST, by VERNON WATKINS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is always so: the declining
Last Line: Full harvest tilted high %in the ruts of tomorrow's ice
Subject(s): Harvest


REVEREND DAN RICE, by BRUCE RICE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Up first thing and ride
Last Line: Through brief shoals of aspen
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Food And Eating; Harvest; Rice


RICE PLANTING, by AMY UYEMATSU    Poem Source                    
First Line: Even my mother has taught herself %to acquire the taste of butter & bread
Last Line: From the fourth generation %tells me he's hungry and smiles %when I hand him a riceball %the size of
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Rice


SAXON HARVEST HEALTH, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here's to the plow that furrowed
Last Line: The blessing of sheaves of grain.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; New York City - Colonial Period; Agriculture; Farmers


SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 10, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What harvest half so sweet is
Last Line: None can deny us.
Subject(s): Harvest; Kisses


SEED-TIME AND HARVEST, by ADA CAMBRIDGE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fret not thyself so sorely, heart of mine
Last Line: Thou doest right, o lord! Thou knowest best.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs.
Subject(s): Harvest


SEED-TIME AND HARVEST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As o'er his furrowed fields which lie
Last Line: Who wait in heaven their harvest-day!
Subject(s): Harvest


SEPTEMBER, by EDWARD BLISS REED    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crickets are making / the merriest din
Last Line: September is here.
Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Nature; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


SEVENTH ELEGY, by AGUSTI BARTRA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Unsleeping I walked, shrouded in wind
Last Line: I felled that statue which stank like a vulture
Subject(s): Harvest


SHEPHERD'S CALENDAR: SEPTEMBER, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Harvest awakes the morning still
Last Line: Making amid their strains divine %all songs in vain so mean as mine
Subject(s): Harvest; September


SMALL SUMMER HARVEST, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: At our place on sugar pine
Last Line: When weather turns %crisp in the fall
Subject(s): Harvest; Summer


SO YESTERDAY WAS BEAN DAY, by MICHELLE LEIGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: So yesterday was bean day, devil day, and that's why in the early white
Last Line: Old devils, bean day gets you every time!
Subject(s): Beans; Food And Eating; Harvest


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


SOMETIMES I'M DRAGGED. SOMETIMES I'M VERY DRAGGED. THE SUN HITS ME, by SESSHU FOSTER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: #name?
Subject(s): Fields; Friendship; Fruit; Harvest


SONG OF THE SCYTHE, by ARTHUR TRUMAN MERRILL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Swith! Swith
Subject(s): Harvest


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


SPRING, by PAUL CLAUDEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The crow, adjusting one eye on me
Last Line: Nourish the vast, stagnant harvest-fields
Subject(s): Country Life; Harvest; Spring


SPRING HYMN, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How pleasant is the opening year!
Last Line: Must reap the harvest time hath sown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Flowers; Harvest; Seasons; Spring


STATE OF THE UNION: 1. HERE NOTHING WORKS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here nothing works. Service taken
Last Line: To our soil that is not different from other lands
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Drought; Failure; Harvest; Labor And Laborers; Poverty


STORM AT HOPTIME, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The hoptime came with sun and shower
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Harvest; Storms; Hop Gardens


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


STRAWBERRY TIME, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the strawberry, ripening, blushes
Last Line: From fields where the berries are thick.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Fruit; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Strawberries; Work; Workers


SUFFOLK HARVEST-HOME SONG, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here's a health unto our master
Last Line: So merrily hunt the fox down the red lane
Subject(s): Harvest


THANKSGIVING CAROL, by ELEANOR FARJEON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fields of corn, give up your ears
Subject(s): Harvest


THE APPLE FAIR, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON    Poem Text                    
First Line: What is all this fuss about?
Last Line: "and shout, ""hurrah for the apple fair!"
Subject(s): Apples; Festivals; Fruit; Harvest; Fairs; Pageants


THE BROWN PEOPLE HEAR WINTER COMING, by INA DRAPER DEFOE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good is the hut from the tall, graceful willow
Last Line: When ghosts of the seed souls are walking.
Subject(s): Chicanos; Harvest; Mexican Americans


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 HARVEST, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG    Poem Text                    
First Line: Summer, the alchemist, achieves once more
Last Line: Must blossom swiftly with great shocks of grain.
Subject(s): Fields; Harvest; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE HARVEST, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I will arise now and go into the fields, to my love who / is at work
Last Line: Where peace is and the quiet of the hills.
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Love; Peace; Agriculture; Farmers


THE HARVEST, by ARTHUR MILTON POPE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Man digs with scooping hands for bits of gold
Last Line: And heaven above him finds him very poor.
Subject(s): Fertility; Harvest; Poverty


THE HARVEST, by CLINTON SCOLLARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chant the harvest song of the brawny reapers
Last Line: After the harvest!
Subject(s): Harvest; Singing & Singers


THE HARVEST FLY'S COMPLAINT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the sun stares hot, unsparing like / a lidless golden eye
Last Line: Though I know that I am in for being done as heretofore!
Subject(s): Harvest; Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes


THE HARVEST MOON, by MARTHA ST. JOHN DOWNEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: The harvest moon rides in to-night
Last Line: And silver hollyhock.
Subject(s): Harvest; Moon; Orchards; Stars; Wind


THE HARVEST MOON, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How peacefully the broad and golden moon
Last Line: To rise up softly o'er our silver hairs.
Subject(s): Harvest; Moon


THE HARVEST OF THE HAY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: O golden joys of summer! O days and nights in / june!
Last Line: O the boon grace of living when eden round us lies!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Harvest


THE HOCK-CART, OR HARVEST HOME, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come sons of summer, by whose toile
Last Line: But for to make it spring againe.
Subject(s): Country Life; Harvest


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 IRISH REAPER'S HARVEST HYMN, by JOHN KEEGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: All hail! Holy mary, our hope and our joy!
Last Line: Light liberty's flame in the hut of the slave!
Subject(s): Freedom; Harvest; Liberty


THE LABORER, by RICHARD DEHMEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: We have a bed, and a baby too
Last Line: Only time!
Subject(s): Family Life; Fields; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Time; Relatives; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Work; Workers


THE LAST MAN, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, in our familiar streets, the day
Last Line: Little hands of silver on his brow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Variant Title(s): The Last Man; For Vivian Schatz
Subject(s): Harvest; Peasantry


THE LAST OF MAY IN VERMONT, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Plantin' time's already here
Last Line: As to lose his soul.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Harvest; Seeds; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


THE LAST SWEEP OF THE SCYTHE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The year had rushed along through may and june
Last Line: That fallen corn is bread, and many a loss true gain.
Subject(s): Harvest


THE MOWERS, by MYRON B. BENTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sunburnt mowers are in the swath
Last Line: Swing, swing, swing!
Subject(s): Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Lawn Mowers


THE POTATO HARVEST, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A high bare field, brown from the plough, and borne
Subject(s): Harvest; Potatoes


THE REAPERS, by MATHILDE BLIND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sun-tanned men and women, toiling there together
Last Line: While the corn stands high, waiting to be cut.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude
Subject(s): Harvest


THE RIPE AND BEARDED BARLEY, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "come out, 'tis now september"
Last Line: Is smiling on the scythe!
Subject(s): Harvest


THE SOLITARY REAPER, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold her, single in the field
Last Line: Long after it was heard no more.
Variant Title(s): The Reaper
Subject(s): Girls; Harvest; Singing & Singers; Songs


THE SOWER, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ridge on ridge the great fields lie
Last Line: And the prayers of broken hearts.
Subject(s): England; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; English; Work; Workers


THE SOWERS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the morning sow thy seed, nor stay thy hand at evening hour
Last Line: Laden with his sheaves of glory, doubtless shall return with singing.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Harvest; Agriculture; Farmers


THE STEAM THRESHING-MACHINE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Flush with the pond the lurid furnace burned
Last Line: The endless ladder, and the booming wheel!
Subject(s): Harvest; Machinery And Machinists


THE STEAM THRESHING-MACHINE (CONTINUED), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Did any seer of ancient time forebode
Last Line: Low-booming with the prophecy of steam!
Subject(s): Harvest; Machinery And Machinists


THE STORM - A HARVEST MEMORY, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The specialities of that dark hour of grief
Last Line: And shall thy loving kindness have less power?
Subject(s): Harvest; Storms


THOUGHTS NEAR ASHAMPSTEAD AERODROME, HARVEST-TIME, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not for the last time be our england filled
Last Line: "god bless friend hodge,"" they say; ""his gear be sped!"
Subject(s): Airports; England - Social Life & Customs; Farm Life; Harvest; Old Age; Agriculture; Farmers


TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Time of crisp and tawny leaves
Last Line: In the thicket while he sings!
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Autumn; Brooks; Harvest; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Streams; Creeks


TIMES SQUARE, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day fell here: %like a drift of dead leaves
Last Line: Elephant trumpet and chorus of locust
Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P.
Subject(s): Fruit; Harvest; Markets; Peaches; Times Square, New York


TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women; Pears


TWILIGHT, by DORIANNE LAUX    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My daughter set whatever had begun
Last Line: When he takes the first dangerous bite
Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Harvest; Pear Trees; Trees; Women


UNHARVESTED, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A scent of ripeness from over a wall.
Last Line: So smelling their sweetness would be no theft
Subject(s): Harvest


VERMONT FALL FEED, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The perfect barnyard has a gate
Last Line: "we never reach the middle mowing."
Subject(s): Barnyards; Farm Life; Harvest; Mowing & Mowers; Prairies; Pumpkins; Vermont; Agriculture; Farmers; Lawn Mowers; Plains


VERMONT WILD FLOWERS IN AUGUST, by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The wild flowers all vermonters love
Last Line: The chickory and lady's lace.
Subject(s): Country Life; Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Harvest; Mountain Life - Vermont; Pastures; Meadows; Leas


WE LIVE IN THE LARGESS OF OUR NICKLE-DIME MOMENTS, by BRENDAN JAMES GALVIN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even adonis, that gored fertility boy
Last Line: We will weep for in a coming world
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Farm Life; Harvest; Obituaries


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


WHAT SMITH KNEW ABOUT FARMING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There wasn't two purtier farms in the state
Last Line: And leave agriculture alone -- and the browns.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Farm Life; Food & Eating; Harvest; Horticulture; Agriculture; Farmers


WHY WAIT? DO IT NOW: 3. AFTER ALL IS SAID, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I place raw red snapper on a bright blue plate
Last Line: September and the smell of pressed grapes
Subject(s): Fruit; Grapes; Harvest


WILD HARVESTS, by STEVE FAY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Gathering from what happened
Last Line: Under a low branch, %see the face you know
Subject(s): Harvest; Nature


WINNOWERS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Betwixt two billows of the downs
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Harvest


WORK TO DO, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: What busy times the world sees now
Last Line: Your way—you sing!
Subject(s): April; Harvest; Labor & Laborers; Plantation Life; Spring; Work; Workers


YEA, I HAVE A GOODLY HERITAGE', by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My vineyard that is mine I have to keep
Last Line: It yet can rear thy palm
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Harvest; Pleasure