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Poem by Kathleen Raine


Harvest


Day is the hero’s shield,
Achilles’ field,
The light days are the angels.
We the seed.

Against eternal light and gorgon’s face
Day is the shield
And we the grass
Native to fields of iron, and skies of brass.



Kathleen Raine


Kathleen Raine's other poems:
  1. Love Poem
  2. Confessions
  3. “The Ancient Speech”
  4. The End of Love
  5. Worry about Money


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • John Newton Harvest ("See! the corn again in ear!")
  • Eva Gore-Booth Harvest ("Though the long seasons seem to separate")
  • John Lapraik Harvest ("GRAVE Autumn comes, with smiling face")

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