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Famous Trapper Poems by Famous Poets

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

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by Frost, Robert
...r trade,
A small skiff
And a paddle blade.

I can just see my tent pegged,
And me on the floor,
Cross-legged,
And a trapper looking in at the door
With furs to sell.

His name's Joe,
Alias John,
And between what he doesn't know
And won't tell
About where Henry Hudson's gone,
I can't say he's much help;
But we get on.

The seal yelp
On an ice cake.
It's not men by some mistake?
No,
There's not a soul
For a windbreak
Between me and the North Pole—

Except always...Read more of this...



by Tennyson, Alfred Lord
...ew my lord was dead,' 
Sent forth a sudden sharp and bitter cry, 
As of a wild thing taken in the trap, 
Which sees the trapper coming through the wood. 

This heard Geraint, and grasping at his sword, 
(It lay beside him in the hollow shield), 
Made but a single bound, and with a sweep of it 
Shore through the swarthy neck, and like a ball 
The russet-bearded head rolled on the floor. 
So died Earl Doorm by him he counted dead. 
And all the men and women in the h...Read more of this...

by Whitman, Walt
...d had a good time:
(You should have been with us that day round the chowder-kettle.) 

I saw the marriage of the trapper in the open air in the far west—the bride
 was a red girl; 
Her father and his friends sat near, cross-legged and dumbly smoking—they
 had moccasins to their feet, and large thick blankets hanging from their
 shoulders; 
On a bank lounged the trapper—he was drest mostly in skins—his
 luxuriant beard and curls protected his neck—he held his brid...Read more of this...

by Lindsay, Vachel
...ll proud deeds
Bloom as when battle gleams!

Warriors of Art,
We will hold council there,
Hewing in stone
Things to the trapper fair,
Painting the gray
Veils that the spring moons wear,
This our revenge,
This one tremendous change:
Making new towns,
Lit with a star-fire strange,
Wild as the dawn
Gilding the bison-range.

All the young men
Chanting your cause that day,
Red-men, new-made
Out of the Saxon clay,
Strong and redeemed,
Bold in your war-array!...Read more of this...

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