Nature
A Quatrain
From An American Anthology, 1787–1900, ed. Edmund Clarence Stedman (1900)
Nature
Hark at the lips of this pink whorl of shell
And you shall hear the ocean's surge and roar:
So in the quatrain's measure, written well,
A thousand lines shall all be sung in four!
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Sherman, Frank Dempster. “A Quatrain.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sherman/10/.
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Sherman, Frank Dempster. “A Quatrain.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sherman/10/.
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