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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOUNTAIN MEN, by HENRY MILSTEAD First Line: They are lean, and they are brown Last Line: To stoic turn and meet the ground. | |||
They are lean, and they are brown, The mountain men who come to town From lonely cove and laurel glade, Stealthily, but unafraid, Bringing a breath of piney air, Tying gaunt horses in the square; Slow of speech, but quick to act, Fierce as panthers when attacked; Low in fortune, high in pride, Mountain men can shoot and ride; Cold in love, but hot in hate, Mountain men can watch and wait; Burning eyes and jaws square set, Mountain men do not forget, Sparing neither means nor end To kill a foe or help a friend. Mountain men know how to die, They stare with hard eyes at the sky, For they are by tradition bound To stoic turn and meet the ground. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MAN CHILD IS BORN (1809) by EDGAR LEE MASTERS DE GUSTIBUS' by ROBERT BROWNING THE DINKEY-BIRD by EUGENE FIELD PHILOMELA: PHILOMELA'S ODE [THAT SHE SANG IN HER ARBOR] by ROBERT GREENE FALSE POETS AND TRUE; TO WORDSWORTH by THOMAS HOOD THE BRONCHO THAT WOULD NOT BE BROKEN by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY TOMORROW by FELIX LOPE DE VEGA CARPIO |
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