From the Lips of the Sea
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Rating | : | 4.79 (704 Votes) |
Asin | : | 1444440047 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 36 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2014-04-17 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Ralph E. Vaughan said Nautical poems. I love the sea and all things nautical, and that includes fiction and poems. Actually, especially poems, for it's easier to capture the eternal rhythms of the sea in the poetical form, the mystery and majesty of the ocean in evocative images. In this short collection, Clinton Scollard presents poems that are very traditional, both in their rhythms and rhymes, and in that they can be
What were the winds that flailed and flayed The sea to him, the night obscure? In dreams he strayed some brackened glade, Some heathery moor. And so amid the deep sea din, And so amid the wastes of foam, Afar his heart was happy in His highland home! THE WIND AND THE SEA Never the long wind dieth, Never, never, But sigheth, crieth, In its old endeavor, Where the shifting sand and shingle Meet and mingle, And the lifting land and ".. And if he saw the slanting spars, And if he watched the shifting track, He marked, too, the eternal stars Shine through the wrack. He gave his dim-seen pipes a skirl And war