| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22. | | | | The Red Land | | By Joseph Warren Beach |
| | From “On the Land”
IN the autumn, | |
| Bathed in gold-dust, | |
| I shall strip the red land | |
| Of a golden harvest. | |
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| Oh, fruitful as the red land | 5 |
| Bearing golden harvest | |
| In the autumn, | |
| Bountiful as the prairie | |
| Heaving milky breasts | |
| On flushed horizons! | 10 |
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| My hand slackens | |
| In the act of cutting, | |
| While I lose myself | |
| In these blue distances. | |
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| The scythe pauses | 15 |
| On the neck of the wheat | |
| As my heart faints against | |
| These flushed horizons. | |
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| I that have seen the sky, | |
| In the time of reaping, | 20 |
| Between her breasts | |
| In the wheat-field, | |
| Sowing and reaping, | |
| There I worship | |
| The land! | 25 | | | |
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