Read full poem →Not the lands of palm and date and rice
Glow more bright when summer leaves them glowing,
Dictionary Entry
Cereal plants, Oryza sativa of the grass family whose seeds are used as food.
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Common Phrases
. ricefields riceproduction ricecultivation ricerice brownrice wild
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Poetry examples for “rice”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Nasturtium by Anne Spencer; Black Madonna by Albert
Rice; Words! Words! by Jessie Fauset; Magula by
Helene Johnson; and The Mask by Clarissa Scott
Read full poem →South Carolina — Religious Controversies — Archdale's Administration — Moore's Expedition against
St. Augustine — Invasion of Indian Territory — French Fleet on the Coast — Culture of Rice — Indian
Conspiracy— Revolt against the Proprietors — the Charter declared Forfeit— South Carolina a Royal
Read full poem →Beside the ungathered rice he lay,
His sickle in his hand;
Read full poem →Mahng, the loon
Mahnomo’nee, wild rice
Ma’ma, the woodpecker
Read full poem →Says, “Happy he who lodges there!
With silken raiment, store of rice,
And for this drought, all kinds of fruits,
Read full poem →ment first at Antioch. We published a pamphlet on
this name; written by Elder Rice Haggard, who had
lately united with us. Having divested ourselves of
Read full poem →When the mist was on the rice-fields an' the sun was droppin' slow,
She'd git 'er little banjo an' she'd sing “Kulla-lo-lo!”
Read full poem →Adds shame to grief, and infamy to ruin.
Lamenting av'rice, now too late, discovers
Her own neglected in the publick safety.