Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO PFRIMMER (LINES ON READING 'DRIFTWOOD'), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poet's Biography First Line: Driftwood gathered here and there Last Line: Down the stream of memory? Subject(s): Driftwood | ||||||||
DRIFTWOOD gathered here and there Along the beach of time; Now and then a chip of truth 'Mid boards and boughs of rhyme; Driftwood gathered day by day, -- The cypress and the oak, -- Twigs that in some former time From sturdy home trees broke. Did this wood come floating thick All along down "Injin Crik?" Or did kind tides bring it thee From the past's receding sea Down the stream of memory? | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DRIFTWOOD FROM A SHIP by GALWAY KINNELL POEM FOR PICTURE: TO AN OIL PAINTING BY WINSLOW HOMER (DRIFTWOOD) by FRANK ANKENBRAND JR. DRIFTWOOD by DAISY DEAN BUTLER DRIFTWOOD FIRE by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY A BANJO SONG by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR |
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