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Famous Dace Poems by Famous Poets

These are examples of famous Dace poems written by some of the greatest and most-well-known modern and classical poets. PoetrySoup is a great educational poetry resource of famous dace poems. These examples illustrate what a famous dace poem looks like and its form, scheme, or style (where appropriate).

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...By Mystic's banks I held my dream.
(I held my fishing rod as well,)
The vision was of dace and bream,
A fruitless vision, sooth to tell.
But round about the sylvan dell
Were other sweet Arcadian shrines,
Gone now, is all the rural spell,
Arcadia has trolley lines.
Oh, once loved, sluggish, darkling stream,
For me no more, thy waters swell,
Thy music now the engines' scream,
Thy fragrance now the factory's smell;
Too near for me the ...Read more of this...
by Laurence Dunbar, Paul



...hore.
Nobody fishes now, my husband used To angle daily, and I too 
with him.
He loved the spotted trout, and pike, and dace. He 
even had a whim
That flies my fingers tied swiftly confused
The greater fish. And he must be excused,
Love weaves odd fancies in a lonely place."

XV
She sighed because it seemed so long ago, Those 
days with Everard; unthinking took
The path back to the orchard. Strolling so She walked, 
and he beside her. In a nook
Where a stone seat withdrew ben...Read more of this...
by Lowell, Amy

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