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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MOUNTAIN FROLIC, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS First Line: In working clothes with song and whoop and shout Last Line: Shot dead for dancing with his pal's best girl. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Festivals; Guns; Murder; Music & Musicians; Fairs; Pageants | |||
In working clothes with song and whoop and shout The mountain gallants shuffling, laughing, come As tuning banjos clack, then mildly strum, While girls in gingham idly stand about. Fiddles and banjos all in tune at last, A surge of racing music stirs the blood, And dancing couples start a mighty flood Of sound as brogan shoes go thumping fast. The music throbs for hours. The room grows hot. The dancing rages jubilant and wild, Each dancer seeming happy as a child. Then sharp above it all a pistol shot -- A heavy body falls and stops the whirl, Shot dead for dancing with his pal's best girl. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE FESTIVAL OF GIOVEDI GRASSO by MATTHEA HARVEY I DEFINE THE DARKNESS CORRECT: THE FESTIVAL OF THE FRERES LUMIERES by ELENI SIKELIANOS THE DANCE (2) by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 1. THE BALLAD-SINGER by THOMAS HARDY AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 2. FORMER BEAUTIES by THOMAS HARDY AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 3. AFTER THE CLUB-DANCE by THOMAS HARDY AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 4. THE MARKET-GIRL by THOMAS HARDY AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 5. THE INQUIRY by THOMAS HARDY AT CASTERBRIDGE FAIR: 6. A WIFE WAITS by THOMAS HARDY AT ELLIS ISLAND by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS |
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