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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET OF FISHES, by GEORGE BARKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright drips the orning from its trophied nets
Last Line: Death, in a dark, in a deep, in a dream, for ever.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers
First Line: Bright drips the orning from its trophied nets
Last Line: Death, in a dark, in a deep, in a dream, for ever.
Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Anglers
Bright drips the morning from its trophied nets
Looped along a sky flickering fish and wings,
Cobbles like salmon crowd up waterfalling
Streets where life dies thrashing at the sea forgets,
True widow, what she has lost; and, ravished, lets
The knuckledustered sun shake bullying
A fist of glory over her. Everything,
Even the sly night, gives up its lunar secrets.
And I with pilchards cold in my pocket make
Red-eyed a way to bed, But in my blood
Crying I hear, still, the leap of the silver diver
Caught in four cords after his fatal strake:
And then, the immense imminence not understood,
Death, in a dark, in a deep, in a dream, for ever.
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