3. The Flower Boat. (From The Youth's Companion, May 20, 1909.). Frost, Robert. 1920. Miscellaneous Poems to 1920

Robert Frost (1874–1963). Miscellaneous Poems to 1920. 1920.

3. The Flower Boat

(From The Youth’s Companion, May 20, 1909.)


THE FISHERMAN’S swapping a yarn for a yarn
Under the hand of the village barber,
And here in the angle of house and barn
His deep-sea dory has found a harbor.

At anchor she rides the sunny sod	5
As full to the gunnel with flowers a-growing
As ever she turned her home with cod
From George’s Bank when winds were blowing.

And I know from that Elysian freight
She will brave but once more the Atlantic weather,	10
When dory and fisherman sail by fate
To seek for the Happy Isles together.