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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE SEA WITCH, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poet's Biography
First Line: Endlessly fell her chestnut flowers
Last Line: Was laggard through her loveliness.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: Endlessly fell her chestnut flowers
Last Line: Was laggard through her loveliness.
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
ENDLESSLY fell her chestnut flowers,
Faint snow throughout the honeyed dark;
The myrtle spread his boughs to drink
Deep draughts of salt from the sea's brink,
And like a moon-dial swung her tower's
Straight shadow o'er her warded park.
From her calm coasts the galleons fled,
The fisher steered him further west,
No port was hailed, no keel came home
Across that pale, enchanted foam,
But by her roof the thrushes fed
And wandering swallows found their rest.
The shadows touched her tenderly,
The red beam lingered on her dress;
The white gull and the osprey knew
Her tower across the leagues of blue.
The wild swan when he sought the sea
Was laggard through her loveliness.
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