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Robert Penn Warren Short Poems

Famous Short Robert Penn Warren Poems. Short poetry by famous poet Robert Penn Warren. A collection of the all-time best Robert Penn Warren short poems


by Robert Penn Warren
 Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood
By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard
The great geese hoot northward.

I could not see them, there being no moon
And the stars sparse.I heard them.

I did not know what was happening in my heart.

It was the season before the elderberry blooms,
Therefore they were going north.

The sound was passing northward.




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