Immigrants
No ship of all that under sail or steam Have gathered people to us more and more But Pilgrim-manned the Mayflower in a dream Has been her anxious convoy in to shore.
Immigrants - fact Summary
Published in West-running Brook
"Immigrants" was published in 1928 in Robert Frost's collection West-Running Brook. The short poem invokes the Mayflower as a symbolic guide rather than a literal ship, suggesting that the Pilgrim story functions as an ongoing cultural convoy steering American identity. Placing the poem in this late-1920s collection helps readers see Frost working with national myths during a period of consolidation after World War I and amid debates over immigration and assimilation. Knowing its publication context alerts readers to the poem’s engagement with myth and public memory.
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