Read full poem →Here moss-grown trees expand the smallest leaf;
Here half an acre's corn is half a sheaf;[14]
Here hills with naked heads the tempest meet,
Dictionary Entry
The main cereal plant grown for its grain in a given region, such as oats in parts of Scotland and Ireland, and wheat or barley in England and Wales.
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Common Phrases
. cornlaws cornmeal corncorn indiancorn sweet
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Poetry examples for “corn”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Pale, without name or number,
In fruitless fields of corn,
They bow themselves and slumber
Read full poem →_A Woman taunts her Lover_
Look at the little darlings in the corn!
The rye is taller than you, who think yourself
Read full poem →Illicit 69
Fireflies in the Corn 70
A Woman and Her Dead Husband 72
Read full poem →As the water takes and leaves,
Like golden ears of corn
Which fall from loose-bound sheaves,
Read full poem →His head as proud as a deer that looks
Shoulder-deep out o' th' corn: and wipes
His scythe blade bright, unhooks
In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665 Being a Year and a Half OldbyAnne Bradstreet
Read full poem →And plums and apples thoroughly ripe do fall,
And corn and grass are in their season mown,
And time brings down what is both strong and tall.
Read full poem →And be surprised for want of watch,
Whilst pecking corn and void of care,
They fall un'wares in fowler's snare,
Read full poem →I too, again, when weeds with growth perverse
Have choked my corn and marred a season’s toil,
Have deemed I heard in heaven abroad a cry,
Read full poem →I too, again, when weeds with growth perverse
Have choked my corn and marred a season’s toil,
Have deemed I heard in heaven abroad a cry,