Evading headlong breakers, Ocean Beach Runs up steep ladders and high stairs of rocks -- Greened now with age and loosened by broad shocks Of ancient, angry tides. Its gray dunes bleach Beneath a burning sky; sands overreach Low thresholds of bright little booths where flocks A crowd of swimmers whose quick laughter mocks Shrill cryptic warnings that old curlews screech. At every garden gate its near waves croon And through the lingering year its hue remains Brave scarlet-gold of summer: here is June Forever under Loma's sea-turned crest! It is a city winding to the West With roses trailing down its tilted lanes. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PALABRAS CARINOSAS (SPANISH AIR) by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH TO JOHN KEATS; SONNET by AMY LOWELL A FORSAKEN GARDEN by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE A SHADOW OF THE NIGHT by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH LULLABY IN BETHLEHEM by HENRY HOWARTH BASHFORD MARCH: A BULL ON THE HORIZON by A. G. BECKMANN |