Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MILKING, by ELLEN DANIELS PANTER First Line: Thrum, thrum, thrum! With a spurt and a splash Last Line: Loiter to pasture -- milking's done! Subject(s): Milk; Milkmen; Milkmaids | ||||||||
Thrum, thrum, thrum! With a spurt and a splash, Into the bucket the white streams flash. High overhead the cottonwood leaves Dance tiptoe in the evening breeze. Is that a dryad peeping there? Or the golden gleam of a fairy's hair? So, boss, so! Don't stir one hoof! There's a hungry babe 'neath yon brown roof. A pat on old bossy -- smooth as silk! Thanks, faithful friend, for fresh rich milk! Milk for dear grandmother in the house, Milk for the kitten -- just dined on mouse. Milk for your calfie, whose bright round eyes Gaze from its pen in quaint surprise. Long grow the shadows, down sinks the sun; Loiter to pasture -- milking's done! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...OUR SON SWEARS HE HAS 102 GALLONS OF WATER IN HIS BODY by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE MY MOTHER'S MILKMAN by DIANE WAKOSKI BABY'S PANTOUM by ANNE WALDMAN MILK FOR THE CAT by HAROLD MONRO MILKING TIME by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS THE MILKMAID by JEFFREYS TAYLOR LYNTON VERSES: 3 by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN TO A MOTH SEEN IN WINTER by ROBERT FROST |
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