Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, DIVER, by SARA BARD FIELD


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DIVER, by                    
First Line: How like a diver, headlong to the sea
Last Line: And vanished, followed by a laughing band.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wood, Charles Erskine Scoot, Mrs.
Subject(s): Diving & Divers


How like a diver, headlong to the sea
You plunged to death and with what powerful stroke
Swam underneath before the surface broke
To your remote return -- but not to me.
Too far that rising was from certainty
For even owl-eyed anguish to evoke
An apparition bodiless as smoke
Of you or of your shore of destiny.
But once, in dream, from dark wave to white sand,
A little breathless but with no dismay
You leaped and brushed the drops of ebon spray
From your bright body with a careless hand.
Then turned as one familiar with the way
And vanished, followed by a laughing band.





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