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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OCEAN BEACH, by WINIFRED DAVIDSON
First Line: Evading headlong breakers, ocean beach
Last Line: With roses trailing down its tilted lanes.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore
First Line: Evading headlong breakers, ocean beach
Last Line: With roses trailing down its tilted lanes.
Subject(s): Flowers; Roses; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore
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.
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