Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SANDY HOOK, by GEORGE WASHINGTON WRIGHT HOUGHTON Poet's Biography First Line: White sand and cedars; cedars, sand Last Line: Rattling their life-boats down the sand! Subject(s): Seashore; Towns; Beach; Coast; Shore | ||||||||
White sand and cedars; cedars, sand; Light-houses here and there; a strand Strewn o'er with driftwood; tangled weeds; A squad of fish-hawks poised above The nets, too anxious-eyed to move; Flame-flowering cactus; winged seeds, That on a sea of sunshine lie Unfanned, save by some butterfly; A sun now reddening toward the west; -- And under and through all one hears That mellow voice, old as the years, The waves' low monotone of unrest. So wanes the summer afternoon In drowsy stillness, and the moon Appears; when, sudden, round about The wind-cocks wheel, -- hoarse fog-horns shout A warning, and in gathering gloom Against the sea's white anger loom Tall shapes of wreckers, torch in hand, Rattling their life-boats down the sand! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...SEASHORE by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS EASTERN LONG ISLAND by MARVIN BELL THE WIND IS BLOWING WEST by JOSEPH CERAVOLO IF SOMETHING SHOULD HAPPEN by LUCILLE CLIFTON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER EMPTIES INTO THE GULF by LUCILLE CLIFTON GEOGRAPHY AS WARNING by MADELINE DEFREES POWER FAILURE by MADELINE DEFREES THE HANDSEL RING by GEORGE WASHINGTON WRIGHT HOUGHTON THE LEGEND OF WALBACH TOWER by GEORGE WASHINGTON WRIGHT HOUGHTON |
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