Read full poem →With gold and shod with gold upon the feet;
And with plucked ears of wheat
The first man's hair was wound upon his head:
Dictionary Entry
Any of several cereal grains, of the genus Triticum, that yields flour as used in bakery.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. wheatflour wheatgerm wheatwheat wholewheat winter
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Poetry examples for “wheat”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Dumb, without word or shadow of sound;
And sift in scales and winnow as wheat
Men's souls, and sorrow of manifold things.
Read full poem →Nor shall one please him with a whitened brow
Nor wheat nor wool nor aught of plaited leaf.
For like my mother am I stung and slain,
Read full poem →And between us and it, the thunder;
And down below, in the green wheat, the labourers
Stand like dark stumps, still in the green wheat.
Read full poem →They bargained in silver and gold,
In copper, in wheat,
And called their bids across the market-place.
Read full poem →Towns in the Ozarks, Dakota wheat towns, Wichita,
Peoria, Buffalo, sisters throwing slang, growing up.
Read full poem →I was born on the prairie and the milk of its wheat, the
red of its clover, the eyes of its women, gave me
Read full poem →morning star over the corn belt, the wave line of
dawn up a wheat valley.
Read full poem →fields, the shore of night stars, the wave lines of
dawn up a wheat valley?
Read full poem →When the grasshopper comes to trouble,
And the wheat-fields are sodden stubble,
And all winds go sighing