Ag in Poetry

How to Read a Poem
(includes poetry terms and definitions)

Poems With Ag-Related Themes

FARM ANIMALS

• April (Yvor Winter)
• The Cow (Robert Louis Stevension)
• The Cow in Apple Time (Robert Frost)
• The Cow is of the Bovine Ilk (Ogden Nash)
• Goat (Meish Goldish)
• The Hay Rake (Kate Barnes)
• Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens (Jack Prelutsky)
• The New Cow (August Derleth)
• Ode to the Pig: His Tail (Walter R. Brooks)
• Pied Beauty (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
• Pigs (Charles Guigna)
• Rodeo (Edward Lueder)
• Sow Got the Measles
• Three Little Piggies

FOOD

• Ants on the Melon (Virginia Hamilton Adair)
• Apple Season (Joyce Sutphen)
• Fiesta Melons (Sylvia Plath)
• My Strawberry (Helen Hunt Jackson)
• Ode to Tomatoes (Pablo Neruda)
• The Pancake Collector (Jack Prelutsky)
• Pancake Poem (Shel Silverstein)
• Pancake Song (Christina Rosetti)
• Peach Trees (Peggy Pond Church)
• A Pizza the Size of the Sun (Jack Prelutsky)
• Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received From a Friend Called Felicity (John Tobias)
• Sand Plum Jelly (Del Cain)
• Thanksgiving Magic (Rowena Bastin Bennett)
• This is Just to Say (William Carlos Williams)
• Watermelons (Charles Simic)

PLANTS AND CROPS

• Ain't It Beautiful (Monty Harper)
• Fueled (Marcie Hans)
• How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual (Pamela Spiro Wagoner)
• I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (William Wordsworth)
• Mushrooms (Sylvia Plath)
• My Strawberry (Helen Hunt Jackson)
• November Cotton Flower (Jean Toomer)
• Ode to Tomatoes (Pablo Neruda)
• October (Robert Frost)
• Plowing Through Ashes (Walter McDonald)
• Soundings (Joyce Sutphen)
• Preparation (Robert Francis)
• Theme in Yellow (Carl Sandburg)
• This Compost (Walt Whitman)
• To Autumn (John Keats)
• When the Frost is on the Punkin (James Whitcomb Riley)
• Winter Trees (William Carlos Williams)