Read full poem →Where, under mulberry-branches, the diligent rivulet sparkles,
Or amid cotton and maize peasants their water-works ply,
Where, over fig-tree and orange in tier upon tier still repeated,
Dictionary Entry
A member of the lowly social class that toils on the land, constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, farmhands and other laborers on the land where they form the main labor force in agriculture and horticulture.
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Common Phrases
. peasantspeasants poorpeasants middlepeasants richpeasants russianpeasants landless
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Poetry examples for “peasants”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →"Not slaves and peasants shall they be,
But men of note and high degree,
Read full poem →On Sundays, at the matin-chime,° °17
The Alpine peasants, two and three,
Climb up here to pray;
Read full poem →5. 58:--
The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings.
Read full poem →Midst the remembrance of thy favours past,
The meanest peasants most admire the last*
May George, beloved by all the nations round,
Read full poem →To submission before wine and chatter.
Silly rich peasants stamp the carpets of men,
Dead men who dreamed fragrance and light
Read full poem →The peasants anchor them with conches. One is told:
“These are the pretty trinkets the sea hides,
Read full poem →She was drawn to the pattern of the tub-like peasants of the German
funny paper _Simplicissimus_. I told her my name was Nicholas. She
Read full poem →And they had nailed the boards above her face
The peasants of that land,
Wondering to lay her in that solitude,
Read full poem →A collection of tales from Irish life and of Irish fancy, retold from
peasants' stories with no additions except an occasional comment.