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Short, coarse hair, especially on a man’s face.
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Poetry examples for “stubble”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →five-o’clock November sunset: falltime, leaves, bon-
fires, stubble, the old things go, and the earth is
grizzled.
Read full poem →When the grasshopper comes to trouble,
And the wheat-fields are sodden stubble,
And all winds go sighing
Read full poem →After the rain has ceased, and still
Will there be robins in the stubble,
Brown sheep upon the warm green hill.
Read full poem →While the hay is making,
When, along the stubble strewn,
Withering on their stalks uneaten,
Read full poem →No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet;
But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubble-wheat,---
Kept seven years in a drawer---thy titles shame thee.
Read full poem →I thought just how Red -- Apples wedged
The Stubble's joints between --
And the Carts stooping round the fields
Read full poem →For of thy parsley yet fare they the worse.
That they have eaten in thy stubble goose:
For in thy shop doth many a fly go loose.
Read full poem →Stubble mulching, on the other hand, depressed yield of grain without affecting pas-
ture yield. The value of stubble mulching may depend on its efficiency in preventing wind
Read full poem →The larks like thunder rise and suthy round,
Then drop and nestle in the stubble ground.
The wild swan hurries hight and noises loud