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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER A HOLIDAY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three little ducks by a door Last Line: From the pain of this tarrying-place. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Vacation | |||
THREE little ducks by a door, Snuggling aside in the sun; The sweep of a threshing-floor, A flail with its One-two, One; A shaggy-haired, loose-limbed mare, Grave as a master at class; A foal with its heels in the air, Rolling, for joy, in the grass; A sunny-eyed, golden-haired lad, Laughing, astride on a wall; A collie-dog, lazily glad... Why do I think of it all? Why? From my window I see Once more, through the dust-dry pane, The sky like a great Dead Sea, And the lash of the London rain; And I read -- here in London town, Of a murder done at my gate, And a goodly ship gone down, And of homes made desolate; And I know, with the old sick heart, That but for a moment's space We may shut our sense, and part From the pain of this tarrying-place. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BUFFALO - ISLE OF WIGHT POWER CABLE by ANSELM HOLLO WHEN THE VACATION IS OVER FOR GOOD by MARK STRAND BACK FROM VACATION by JOHN UPDIKE A FANCY FROM FONTENELLE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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