Files on files of Prairie Maize: On hosts of spears the morning plays! Aloft the rustling streamers show: The floss embrowned is rich below. When Asia scarfed in silks came on Against the Greek and Marathon, Did each plume and pennon dance Sun-lit thus on helm and lance Mindless of War's sickle so? For them, a tasseled dance of death: For these -- the reapers reap them low. Reap them low, and stack the plain With Ceres' trophies, golden grain. Such monuments, and only such, O Prairie! termless yield, Though trooper Mars disdainful flout Nor Annals fame the field. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE SONG MAKER by SARA TEASDALE WINTER NIGHT by CH'IEN WEN OF LIANG SONG by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE THE ROSE TREE by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS IMPROMPTU by FRANCOIS JOACHIM DE PIERRE DE BERNIS |