Sea Marvels (Clinton Scollard Poems)
This morning more mysterious seems the sea Than yesterday when, with reverberant roar, It charged upon the beaches, and the ...
This morning more mysterious seems the sea Than yesterday when, with reverberant roar, It charged upon the beaches, and the ...
The breakers dash, the breakers boom, Upon the beaches ceaselessly; Beyond the line of flying spume Stretch weltering ...
Men who have loved the ships they took to sea, Loved the tall masts, the prows that creamed with foam,Have ...
Green sea-tarnished copperAnd sea-tarnished goldOf cupolas.Sea-runnelled streetsChannelled by salt airThat wears the white stone.The sunlight-filled cisternOf a dry-dock. Square shadows.Sun-slatted ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
(For Alden March) With drooping sail and pennant That never a wind may reach, They float in sunless waters Beside ...
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
We've sent our little Cupids all ashore -- They were frightened, they were tired, they were cold: Our sails of ...
TO skies that were brighter Turned he his prows; To gods that were lighter Made he his vows. The snow-land's ...
All night they whine upon their ropes and boom against the dock with helpless prows: these little ships that are ...
There is darkness behind the light -- and the pale light drips Cold on vague shapes and figures, that, half-seen ...
Over the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave, To a speeding wind and a bounding wave, ...
OVER the sea our galleys went, With cleaving prows in order brave To a speeding wind and a bounding wave-- ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
S. Patrick. You who are bent, and bald, and blind, With a heavy heart and a wandering mind, Have known ...
Green sea-tarnished copper And sea-tarnished gold Of cupolas. Sea-runnelled streets Channelled by salt air That wears the white stone. The ...
Athelstan King, Lord among Earls, Bracelet-bestower and Baron of Barons, He with his brother, Edmund Atheling, Gaining a lifelong Glory ...
I Beyond the hollow sunset, ere a star Take heart in heaven from eastward, while the west, Fulfilled of watery ...
MAKE war songs out of these; Make chants that repeat and weave. Make rhythms up to the ragtime chatter of ...
I. THEIR BASIC SAVAGERY Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room, Barrel-house kings, with feet unstable, Sagged and reeled and ...
A Song in Chinese Tapestries "How, how," he said. "Friend Chang," I said, "San Francisco sleeps as the dead- Ended ...
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