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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IMPRESSIONS: LES SILHOUETTES, by OSCAR WILDE Poet's Biography
First Line: The sea is flecked with bars of grey
Last Line: Like silhouettes against the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
First Line: The sea is flecked with bars of grey
Last Line: Like silhouettes against the sky.
Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills
Subject(s): Sea; Ocean
THE sea is flecked with bars of grey
The dull dead wind is out of tune,
And like a withered leaf the moon
Is blown across the stormy bay.
Etched clear upon the pallid sand
The black boat lies: a sailor boy
Clambers aboard in careless joy
With laughing face and gleaming hand.
And overhead the curlews cry,
Where through the dusky upland grass
The young brown-throated reapers pass,
Like silhouettes against the sky.
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