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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEA-PICTURES; NIGHT NOISES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poet's Biography
First Line: No voice of crickets wearing through the night
Last Line: And gossip on lost ships of long ago.
Subject(s): Graves; Night; Sound; Summer; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime
First Line: No voice of crickets wearing through the night
Last Line: And gossip on lost ships of long ago.
Subject(s): Graves; Night; Sound; Summer; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime
NO voice of crickets wearing through the night
From skeins of dew in scented summer fields;
No sleep-time chirp of birds, no tree that yields
A solemn sigh when touched by breezes light.
Instead, a throb of engines in their might,
The scurrying seamen with their weird Yo-ho!
The creak of ropes, the lapping of sad waves,
That seem to grieve above forgotten graves,
And gossip on lost ships of long ago.
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