Classic and Contemporary Poetry
VANISHING JOY, by ROY WALTER JAMES First Line: I went down to the beach to play Last Line: To woe within a looking glass. Subject(s): Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore | ||||||||
I went down to the beach to play And saw where sea-weed, anchored, lay; Where waves had left the shore as though They wished to ever seaward go; I ran where periwinkles stray When wind is blowing spume and spray; Sea-minnows wiggled, grey and green, In little pools the rocks between; I saw where abalones crawl When waters are above them all. While glad and happily I danced, Where waves few hours ago had pranced. I slipped on sea-weed green as grass And broke a salty looking glass. I danced no more that wondrous day But left where tideland boulders lay; With fragments of a salty glass, Through which I plunged from tideland grass, Bewildering my hair and eyes, And dripping from my clothes likewise, I stumbled shuddering back home From where the tideland horses roam. And now and then I oft recall How I on sea-weed chanced to fall, How I saw joy so quickly pass To woe within a looking glass. | 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 |
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