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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SAND & SPRAY: SEA-SYMPHONY. 2. VARIATIONS: 1. SAILBOATS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poet's Biography
First Line: Light as thin-winged swallows pirouetting and gyrating
Last Line: Heeling and tossing about in the estuary.
Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean
First Line: Light as thin-winged swallows pirouetting and gyrating
Last Line: Heeling and tossing about in the estuary.
Subject(s): Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Seamen; Sails; Ocean
Scherzando
Light as thin-winged swallows pirouetting and gyrating,
The sails dance in the estuary:
Now heeling to the gust, now cantering,
Bobbing as shuttles back and forth from each other.
They scorn the black steamers that steadily near them
On a course direct, with white spume of smoke from their bows,
With snapping crash of breakers they fling themselves forward:
Black on the wing-tips, white on the underside.
These are the birds of the land breeze,
Nesting on green waves in the gold sunlight:
These are the sailships
Heeling and tossing about in the estuary.
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