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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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