Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, EVISA: A SKETCH IN CORSICA, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS


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EVISA: A SKETCH IN CORSICA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Through the rose-red chasms and the gorges
Last Line: Lone upon wide wings.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Corsica; Drawing; Mountains; Nature; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips


THROUGH the rose-red chasms and the gorges
Of granite and porphyry,
The mountain river surges
And battles down to the sea,
Deep, deep out of sight,
Save where a flash of white
Sometimes leaps in the sun
And then is gone.

And a giant might shoot with an arrow,
Mile upon mile though it be,
Through the cloven mountain, the narrow
Sheer portal out to the sea.
The sea shines purple and blue,
Save where a sanguine hue
Melts in it under the shapes
Of the bare fantastic capes,
Coloured like Autumn eves,
Or a rose's inner leaves.
On the sea is a single skiff,
Above, 'twixt cliff and cliff,
A grey sea-eagle swings
Lone upon wide wings.





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