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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
I HAVE SOME FROZENFACED CONNECTICUT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: While the triumphant yankee's farm swept by Subject(s): Fish & Fishing | |||
I have seen some frozenfaced connecticut Or Down east man in his crack coaster With tort sail, with folded arms standing Beside his galley with his dog & man While his cock crowed aboard, scud thro the surf By some fast anchored Staten Island farm, But just outside the vast and stirring line Where the astonished Dutchman digs his clams Or but half ploughs his cabbage garden plot With unbroken steeds & ropy harness''" And some squat bantam whom the shore wind drownd Feebly responded there for all reply, While the triumphant Yankee's farm swept by. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...JOURNEY INTO THE EYE by DAVID LEHMAN THE GREAT BLACK HERON by DENISE LEVERTOV ISLA MUJERES by WILLIAM MATTHEWS SCHOOLS OF LITTLE FISH by MARVIN BELL TWO PICTURES OF A LEAF by MARVIN BELL OF FISH AND FISHERMEN by JOHN CIARDI |
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