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It would help to read the poem, but based simply on the word, I would say it is used either in a negative way or inspiring way.
If you could let me know what poem it is, I may be able to help better :-)
The meaning behind that simile is that ‘they’ are getting tons of gold like they were corn grains which if you’ve seen them, there’s a lot in just one corn. So basically those people were getting a lot of gold.