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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BECK IN WINTER, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the broad, the shallow, rapid stream Last Line: And pomp of antlers -- Subject(s): Winter | |||
OVER the broad, the shallow, rapid stream, The Alder, a vast hollow Trunk, and ribbed -- All mossy green with mosses manifold, And ferns still waving in the river-breeze Sent out, like fingers, five projecting trunks -- The shortest twice 6 (?) of a tall man's strides. -- One curving upward in its middle growth Rose straight with grove of twigs -- a pollard tree: -- The rest more backward, graddual in descent -- One in the brook and one befoamed its waters: One ran along the bank in the elk-like head And pomp of antlers -- | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOOKING EAST IN THE WINTER by JOHN HOLLANDER WINTER DISTANCES by FANNY HOWE WINTER FORECAST by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN AT WINTER'S EDGE by JUDY JORDAN CHAMBER MUSIC: 34 by JAMES JOYCE A CHILD'S EVENING PRAYER by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A DAY DREAM by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE A THOUGHT SUGGESTED BY A VIEW, OF SADDLEBACK IN CUMBERLAND by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE |
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