Social Commentaries
In Poppy Fields
From The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems (1899)
Social Commentaries
Here the poppy hosts assemble:
How they startle, how they tremble!
All their royal hoods unpinned
Blow out lightly in the wind.
Here is gold to labor for;
Here is pillage worth a war.
Men that in the cities grind,
Come! before the heart is blind.
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MLA
Markham, Edwin. “In Poppy Fields.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/markham/49/.
Chicago
Markham, Edwin. “In Poppy Fields.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/markham/49/.
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