| Robert Frost (1874–1963). Miscellaneous Poems to 1920. 1920. |
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| 3. The Flower Boat |
| | | (From The Youth’s Companion, May 20, 1909.) |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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| 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. | |
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