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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DRIFTWOOD, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER First Line: Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you / high Last Line: Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed. Subject(s): Disasters; Driftwood; Grief; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean | |||
Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you high; Left you here in the blazing sun, broken and bleached and dry; Only a bit of drift-wood; whence came you—how and why? Did angry wave and tempest wild, on yonder rock-bound reef Drive to her death, some vessel weak, where nought could give relief? Left but this bit of drift-wood; yea, this, and searing grief? Like this frail ship, a soul goes down; the toll to sin is paid; The coast of folly strewn with wrecks, its siren call has made; Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HALL OF OCEAN LIFE by JOHN HOLLANDER JULY FOURTH BY THE OCEAN by ROBINSON JEFFERS BOATS IN A FOG by ROBINSON JEFFERS CONTINENT'S END by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE FIGUREHEAD by LEONIE ADAMS |
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