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PLOVERS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Presently I shall go with the plovers
Last Line: And stoop to a fallen feather.
Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs.
Subject(s): Plovers


Presently I shall go with the plovers,
Shatter this wall with the Brunt of my wing;
I shall have nothing to do with braggarts, nothing to do with lovers;
I shall fly in a fiery ring.

I shall nest with the gold and the black-bellied plovers
In catalpas that do not exist;
I shall not care for quibbles, I shall not care for covers,
I shall pierce an impersonal mist.

The lapwing will know me, the sandpiper plover,
The dotterel rummaging reaches of rain, --
Perhaps in an orgy of crusading beaks I'll discover
The breaking of light, again.

I shall lariat stars with the gallant plovers,
Fling a noose for the loveliness they will be plying --
Curl up, imperturbable claws, I am not one who hovers
Indecisive, when plovers are flying.

Presently I shall go with the plovers
With never a cry for our lodging together --
And you will remember the unrecurrent year we were lovers
And stoop to a fallen feather.





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