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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BEAUTIFUL CORN, by PEARL BARRETT HOY First Line: You talk of beautiful corn Last Line: How can you know? Subject(s): Corn; Harvest; Plantation Life | |||
You talk of beautiful corn. Did you ever plant any? Row after row— Endless—unending— Did you ever plow corn, All summer, In the heat? Did you notice the beautiful corn? Or the merciless heat? Or the dry hot wind! Cursing your horses to greater speed— Throwing rocks—dirt— Anything to make them move! In the heat— Was it beautiful? Did you ever pick corn In the fall; Reach up—down— Take two rows—three rows—one row? Swollen fingers, sprained wrists— Ten bushel, a hundred bushel. Picking—picking—picking— Did you say beautiful corn, stranger? How can you know? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BILL'S BEANS; FOR WILLIAM STAFFORD by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE RAISING HUBBARD SQUASH IN VERMONT by DANIEL LEAVENS CADY THE SUGAR-CANE: CRESCENDO by JAMES GRAINGER A PLANTATION SCENE by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON PLANTATION WEDDING by MARGARET W. HOBSON DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING LONGIN' FUR TENNESSEE (A LAMENT FROM YANKEE LAND) by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE THE OLD PLANTATION by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE SONG BY THE WINDOW BEFORE BED by KATHERINE MANSFIELD |
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