Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, INTERMEZZO; PASTORAL: 3. AT DIEPPE: GREY AND GREEN; TO WALTER SICKERT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS


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INTERMEZZO; PASTORAL: 3. AT DIEPPE: GREY AND GREEN; TO WALTER SICKERT, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: The grey-green stretch of sandy grass
Last Line: Or this indifferent moment as it dies.
Subject(s): Dieppe, France; Sickert, Walter Richard (1860-1940)


The grey-green stretch of sandy grass,
Indefinitely desolate;
A sea of lead, a sky of slate;
Already autumn in the air, alas!

One stark monotony of stone,
The long hotel, acutely white,
Against the after-sunset light
Withers grey-green, and takes the grass's tone.

Listless and endless it outlies,
And means, to you and me, no more
Than any pebble on the shore,
Or this indifferent moment as it dies.





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