Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SHOUT TO THE SHEPHERDS, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Freshly, gaily, the rivulet flows Last Line: Good bye. Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses | ||||||||
Freshly, gaily, the rivulet flows Beside its emerald bank Each silver bubble in beauty goes Adown the stream & briefly glows Till it reach the broad flags & the alders dank. Shepherds, who love the lay Of untaught bards in oaken shades Brighteyed Apollos of the forest glades Hither, hither, turn your way. Come to the grassy border of the brook Here where the ragged hawthorn dips His prickly buds of perfume in the wave And thence again a costly fragrance sips Drinking with each balmy floweret's lips Pure from the Naiad's welling urn While overhead the embowering elms Bow their broad branches & keep out the day. Hither, hither, turn your way. Good bye. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE LOVING SHEPHERDESS by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE SHEPHERD by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON A TIMOROUS SHEPHERD by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP THE HEART'S RETURN by EDWIN MARKHAM THE SONG OF THE SHEPHERDS by EDWIN MARKHAM THE GREEN SHEPHERD by LOUIS SIMPSON AUTOCHTHONIC TERCET: 2 by CESAR VALLEJO THE STORY THE SHEPHERD TELLS THE SHEEP by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE SHEPHERD, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE by WILLIAM BLAKE |
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